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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Date: 07 Sep 2000 17:59:20 -0700 "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes: > My last successful "make check" in glibc 2.2 on ia64 was made on Sep. 1. > Since then, I got, It fails on PPC as well for whatever reason. It doesn't on x86 and this is my measuring point. Somebody will have to fix it and it's defeinitely not me since I still have no working IA-64 system with glibc 2.2. From the descriptions I've seen of this problem, it sounds a lot like yet another unaligned memory access problem in the locale code. Isn't there a way to make the x86 signal an cpu exception when data is accessed in an unaligned fashion? Ulrich, you could make use of that if it were true. (I am rather positive that 486 and later provide such a switch, perhaps in the eflags register) This is important beyond correctness for risc-list cpus, it can turn into a quiet performance problem even on x86 which doesn't trap but executes those memory accesses much more slowly. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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