>>>>> "Georg" == Georg v Zezschwitz <gvz@???> writes:
Georg> Hi! I don't know if the DEC Alpha will crash when you access a
Georg> 2/4-byte integer at an odd address.
Georg> You might check this with this small piece of code:
Georg> void main(void) { int f[2], *p;
Georg> p = (int*)(((char*)f)+1); printf ("%d I survived\n", *p); }
Georg> This would be my idea of a failure reason.
Georg> However, I have no ideas about this. I think getting to know at
Georg> what line in the source the process dies is pretty essential.
Alphas cope with this quite well, although you will see "unaligned trap"
messages in the "messages" log. Apparently the processor takes care of the unaligned
access internally at the cost of some speed.
Exim runs well under Alpha Linux.
I'd wonder whether the signal 11s and memory violations are more related to
a hardware problem.
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