Subject: Re: unaligned access
To: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/19/1998 18:07:06
On Tue, 19 May 1998 20:33:15 -0400 
 nm <nmanisca@vt.edu> wrote:

 > will an unaligned access cause a program to fail on netbsd/alpha 1.3?

Not by default, no.. but it will cause a message to be logged to the
console.

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