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Re: binutils: "unexpected reloc type 0x17" on sparc
H . J . Lu writes:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:21:17PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > Too bad, as this binutils change is required for things to work
> > > on Solaris, which otherwise gets SIGBUS on the unaligned write.
> >
> > What I'm really trying to understand is why we've gotten away with not
> > having this for all this time. :-)
>
> Does Linux sparc kernels have unaligned access support? We can fix
> glibc and I put a word in my binutils release note.
No it does not, userland should never make an unaligned access.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com