From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 14 19:28:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15450 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15428 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28194; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:28:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:28:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199810150228.TAA28194@kithrup.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. 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> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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