Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:28:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. Message-ID: <199810150228.TAA28194@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <199810150217.TAA06537.kithrup.freebsd.freebsd-arch.alpha@implode.root.com> References: Your message of "14 Oct 1998 18:59:18 PDT." <8767dmoaa1.fsf@netbsd1.cygnus.com>
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In article <199810150217.TAA06537.kithrup.freebsd.freebsd-arch.alpha@implode.root.com> you write: > We have lot's of diagnostic code in FreeBSD to panic on various internal >inconsistencies. An unaligned reference, in my experiance, is usually not >something to be worried about. An unaligned reference on an Alpha is considerably more severe than an unaligned reference on the x86. It is, in fact, roughly akin to dereferencing NULL. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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