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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:41:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <kuehl@lgk.de>
Subject:   Re: x86 unaligned access followup.
Message-ID:  <20010719113955.H50024-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010719113326.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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> It is very rare that the alpha port is broken as you describe.  Sometimes
> a bug will have a different affect on the alpha than on x86, but except
> for bugs in sys/alpha that x86'ers won't be committing, very few of the bugs
> break just the alpha and not the x86 as well.

Generally this is true. Most of the alpha vs. x86 issues are found in
compilation.

Actually, to be fair, we'd have to consider all the kernel subsystems that
have *not* in fact been tested on alpha. The dozens of warnings from NetGraph
or CODA code indicate that there might be problems there, for instance.

-matt



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