Re: broken compiler?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 04:11:04PM -0800, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

> Which means, given an arbitrary address (and not the type), you have to do 
> a lw, and not a ld, to access it. Which pretty much means that all the 
> bitops routines need to do ll/sc instead of lld/scd. I will try out some
> changes and see if it helps. (btw, I don't know what bestiality would
> occur if you did a lld on a non dword aligned addr anyway).

The kernel would try to send a SIGBUS to the current process.

  Ralf