On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Martin Husemann wrote:

> 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.

   The alpha has several machdep sysctl entries that allow you to specify
if the kernel should fixup alignment errors, wheter to print messages, and 
whether to send a SIGBUS signal.

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