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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:38:33 -0200
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Subject: Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling
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Sean Hunter (sean@dev.sportingbet.com) wrote on 14 February 2001 17:26:
 >This is an application problem, not a kernel one.  You need to upgrade your
 >netkit.

Yes, I was quite confident of this. However, unaligned traps are a
frequent problem with alphas. For a looong time we had zsh produce
lots of it, to the point of making it unusable. Strangely, the problem
disappeared without changing anything in zsh. It was either a library
or kernel problem.

 >P.S. I wrote a small wrapper to aid in the debugging of unaligned
 >traps, which I'll send to anyone who's interested.

I'd like it!
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