Re: Help about this code?

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From: Lawrence Kirby
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 21:56

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In article <1995Dec27.145139.29380@lorelei.approve.se>
           hoh@lorelei.approve.se "Goran Larsson" writes:

>>       - 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.

Actually I quite like the idea of this. It allows you to compile and run
3rd party code that is broken in this respect - it is vastly better to
have something that runs slowly than something that doesn't run at all.
For this to be useful you'd have to have the option to disable the diagnostic
(or just diagnose once per program invocation) or you could be swamped
with them.

On the other hand you have the diagnostics that allow you to track down
and fix these problems in development. It really gives you the best of all
worlds.

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Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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