On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:00:10PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > 00:05 < pusling> lamont: what is "bus error" on hppa ? > > 00:06 < lamont> pusling: unaligned load/store > > 00:06 < lamont> pusling: more specically, valid address, permission fault > > 00:06 < pusling> lamont: is unaligned load/store enough to make builds fail > > ? > > 00:06 < lamont> pusling: was - I turned that off rather recently > > So it sounds to me like there are two issues: > > 1. There is a bug, somewhere, that is generating an unaligned access
correct. > 2. HPPA can be configured to handle, somehow, unaligned accesses. > the default mode is for unaligned accesses to be trapped, logged and emulated. lamont sets it to coredump for ease of getting a backtrace on the buildds. > Your contention is that HPPA buildd machines should be reconfigured to > handle unaligned access. That's fair enough, though in the past it > has been claimed that this imposes a large performance penalty [1]. > indeed it does. unaligned accesses are definitely a bug, unfortunately lacking manpower to fix all of them. > Irrespective of how the buildd machines are configured, however, there > is a bug. I think it should be tracked. > agreed. > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00871.html > > -Steve cheers, kyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
