Re: [MiNT] libgem16: vs_color

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Am 19.01.2010, 21:31 Uhr, schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>:

> E.g. on newer ARM CPUs (and Linux kernel running on them), you can  
> configure
> whether CPU generates exceptions about alignment issues and whether
> kernel will terminate the process when that happens, outputs a warning,
> and/or silently fixups[1] the non-aligned accessed data.  This can help  
> in
> finding out & checking whether code does buggy or useful unaligned  
> accesses.

Would be nice to have this on atari.

It will not be easy to find the place where the stack became odd, I'm  
afraid.

Unless someone fixed something yet unknown.

> [1] Upstream Linux kernel has had bugs in this though for several ARM CPU
> versions, resulting usually in the buggy code using 100% CPU and draining
> the battery.

The battery? How's that? I hope it didn't blow the fuse!


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Helmut Karlowski