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Re: Unaligned accesses on a DECstation 3100/Ultrix 4.0

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 1990 22:22
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In article <1990Nov28.221219.15331@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes:

| From a posting by Jeff Michaud (michaud@decwrl.dec.com) from a little
| over a year ago:
| 
| 	Finding them is pretty easy.  dbx the offending program, then
| 
| 		dbx> 0xNNNNNN/10i
| 
| 	will tell you the routine-name:linenumber of the offending source line.

But this tells you didley squat if the routine happens to be passed a
pointer from somewhere else, and it only fails on the 10,000th time
the routine is called.
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
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