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From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud)
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Subject: Re: unaligned data access on DS3100's
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Date: 19 Mar 90 22:03:43 GMT
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> is this configurable?  i'm surprised that this behavior is the default; it
> seems to me pretty easy to guess wrong when you're twiddling pointers on
> behalf of a user program at runtime.

	The idea is you don't want applications core dumping (ie. become
	unusable) in a production environment.  Even in a development
	environment, all the applications you are running you are most
	likely not going to have source access to.  As such, it's better to
	allow programs to continue to run since they are most likely functioning
	properly even though they are taking a performance hit for every
	unaligned access.

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