Subject: Re: Busspace sanity ...
To: None <grefen@hprc.tandem.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/09/1998 15:53:43
> The problem in this case is that the message really hurts so bad
> that you won't run a system with DEBUG compiled in.
> I still don't see why the alignment of the data pointer (not the
> busspace address) needs to be stricter aligned than mandatory for the
> CPU (unless you check for another architecture, which I think isn't covered
> by DEBUG).

I agree.  I think this states is pretty clearly.

If you really do want to try to check pointer alignment for other
architectures, use BUS_SPACE_DEBUG.

In the DEBUG but !BUS_SPACE_DEBUG case, I agree that the pointer check
should use ALIGNED_POINTER.  The bus address check should use the
stricter alignment-checking code (i.e. should remain the way it is
now).


cgd