Re: "Exception at ..." with 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 kernels

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
24 Nov 1996 20:28:28 GMT

Followup to: <199611211136.MAA25464@turtle.stack.nl>
By author: Bas Mevissen <sgm@stack.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > > Btw, wouldn't it be a nice thing for us RISC people if on Intel
> > > the kernel would enable the 486+ alignment exceptions and throw
> > > warnings ;-)
> >
> > I like it! Now where'd my Intel databook go...
>
> And where would the people with their 386's go ?
>

I suspect the point is to use it as a debugging device to find
unaligned accesses in the kernel (that aren't portable to RISC
architectures). Don't enable it in user space, though -- legitimate
programs will break.

-hpa

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