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In article <4bprle$n2k@news.tuwien.ac.at>,
Seda Oezses <e8927426@fbma.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> void main(void)

Anything can happen if you lie to the compiler. The function main
returns an int, nothing else.

> 	- On a SUN SPARCclasic (Solaris 2.4) the result was a Bus error.

This is what I expect if you do unaligned accesses.

> 	- On a DECStation 5500 (ULTRIX 4.4) program run and printed 10 but with a
> 	  message "Fixed up unaligned data access for pid 25977 (a.out) at pc 0x400678".

This is stupid. They are just trying to be kind, but are giving you a
huge performance penalty.

> 	- On a RISC/6000 (AIX ??) program run without an error or warning.

Perhaps that processor can do unaligned accesses? I've never seen a RISC
processor that allowed unaligned accesses, so AIX is probably handling it
with a huge performance penalty.

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