SUMMARY : Unaligned Access

From: Smith, Gavin <SmithG_at_capitagroup.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 15:28:17 +0100

Hi,

Thanks to :-

Richard A Bemrose rb237_at_phy.cam.ac.uk
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn tpb_at_zk3.dec.com
Charles Vachon cvachon2_at_mrn.gouv.qc.ca
Gavin Kreuiter gavink_at_ust.co.za
Terry Horsnell tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Lars Bro lbr_at_dksin.dk
Lucio Chiappetti lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it

Who all provided quick replies.

The consesus of opinion was to read the "uac" man page :)

I've decided I can live with these occassional messages, but to turn
them
off I would need to do a :-

uac s noprint

Dr. Thomas P. Blinn also said :-

>You've got an application that was written for a 32-bit system and the
code
>is not 64-bit clean; it's got data structures that force access to data
on
>unaligned boundaries (e.g., trying to read a 32-bit word from a 16-bit
but
>not 32-bit aligned address in memory). Sun will have to fix this code
when
>they get to 64-bit Solaris, but in the meantime, you can suppress
getting
>the warning messages with the "uac" command, which you need to invoke
>prior to running the application that causes the messages

Thanks again!

Gavin Smith
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