Subject: Re: 4.99.17 (-current) - now: Alignment error
To: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/10/2007 15:09:03
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:39:14PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Just to help me understand this - what is "MDP_FIXALIGN"?

A machine dependend process flag, telling the kernel "allow this process
to do unaligned access". It is not on by default in any sparc64 ABI I'm
aware of, and it probably hasn't been tested any time in the last few
years ;-) Not sure if there are any apps out there actually using it.

Martin