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From: carter@ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov (Dave Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Unaligned access errors
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Date: 23 Oct 90 17:22:07 GMT
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In article <1990Oct22.193125@Valinor.Stanford.EDU> vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
>
>This was discussed at length some time ago but, unfortunately, I didn't
>save the discussion. My qustion is: is there a way to trap "unaligned
>access"es on a RISC system and have the program core-dump instead of
>being "fixed-up"?

could someone please summarize this discussion to me (via e-mail)?  i
missed it, and we're having the same problem.

						- dave