On 1999-Oct-29 11:03:20 +1000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>  Unfortunately, we just don't see these sorts
>    of panics on Intel boxes all that much because IA32 allows misaligned
>    accesses.  This means there are almost certainly alignment bugs in the
>    code.

You can enable user-mode alignment traps on the IA32.  Check out
EFLAGS bit 18 and the AM bit in CR0 - unfortunately, it doesn't seem
to work for ring 0, 1, 2 so you can't find alignment problems in the
kernel.


Peter


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