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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
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* Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> Compile on Alpha and get BUS ERROR.
>
>Presumably that is a runtime rather than compilation time error.

Correct.

>You didn't say what model of Alpha, but older chips require
>certain instructions be aligned.  VMS deals with this through
>alignment fault handlers that fix up such problems at a penalty
>of about 100 instructions.  Perhaps you are on Unix or Linux
>(you didn't say in the body text).

OSF/1. Yep, and I added a pragma Atomic to provocate this effect.