Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Unaligned accesses on a DECstation 3100/Ultrix 4.0 Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 22:22:37 GMT References: <11824@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1990Nov28.140934.17734@decuac.dec.com> <1990Nov28.221219.15331@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 20 In-reply-to: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu's message of 28 Nov 90 22:12:19 GMT In article <1990Nov28.221219.15331@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes: | From a posting by Jeff Michaud (michaud@decwrl.dec.com) from a little | over a year ago: | | Finding them is pretty easy. dbx the offending program, then | | dbx> 0xNNNNNN/10i | | will tell you the routine-name:linenumber of the offending source line. But this tells you didley squat if the routine happens to be passed a pointer from somewhere else, and it only fails on the 10,000th time the routine is called. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?