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Article #1046Re: unaligned data access on DS3100's
From: Jeff Michaud
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 22:03
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 22:03
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> is this configurable? i'm surprised that this behavior is the default; it > seems to me pretty easy to guess wrong when you're twiddling pointers on > behalf of a user program at runtime. The idea is you don't want applications core dumping (ie. become unusable) in a production environment. Even in a development environment, all the applications you are running you are most likely not going to have source access to. As such, it's better to allow programs to continue to run since they are most likely functioning properly even though they are taking a performance hit for every unaligned access. /--------------------------------------------------------------\ |Jeff Michaud michaud@decwrl.dec.com michaud@decvax.dec.com| |DECnet-ULTRIX #include <standard/disclaimer.h> | \--------------------------------------------------------------/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!michaud From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: unaligned data access on DS3100's Message-ID: <9390@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 19 Mar 90 22:03:43 GMT References: <23185@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@shlump.nac.dec.com Distribution: usa Organization: DEC Lines: 16