Subject: Re: unaligned access
To: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/19/1998 18:26:37
On Tue, 19 May 1998, nm wrote:

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

No; it will generate a trap which will deal with the unaligned
access, and print a nasty warning.

cjs

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