Re: Bus Errors!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:58:55 +0000 (GMT)

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> For this reason, Intel machines can't produce bus errors from unnatural
> alignments. Further, there are no bus signals (bits) that could possibly
> be operated in the event of some hardware generated error related to the
> bus.

You can get align errors from a variety of things. CMPXCHG8 for example has
alignment rules.

Alan

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