Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Hi, By default the ARM kernel just ignores unaligned accesses from userspace and can just accesses another address then actually specified. This can cause strange behaviour by userspace programs. While i agree that these programs are somewhat buggy, but doing something undefined and not telling anyone doesn't seem like a good strategy :)
Some discussion on #debian-arm indicates that it the current default made some sense in the old days. Where some programs actually relied on the behaviour and the amount of buggy programs was so big that it actually caused a flood of warnings. Times have changed though, no applications in debian should depend on this behaviour and turning on warn+fixup doesn't seem cause a flood anymore. Most problemeatic should have been fixed by now, as on Sparc you'll get a sigbus on unaligned access and iirc Alpha gives a warning about it. For reference, i discovered this issue because powerdns on my arm was giving out weird SOA records. So enabling fixup does solves real problems or at least shows where they are :) (Yes i've already patched pdns and will be sending the patch out after some more testing) Sjoerd -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable') Architecture: arm (armv5tel) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-iop32x Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
