Subject: Re: main_fracas
To: T@W <lsp93@xs4all.nl>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/12/2000 09:04:20
At 9:10 PM +0200 5/10/00, T@W wrote:
> For convenience forwarded by me from:
>
>http://www.newhackcity.net
>
>* affected_configurations: *
>* NetBSD 1.4.x on SPARC and Alpha platforms were tested and found to be *
>* vulnerable. Any platform where a page fault is caused by an unaligned *
>* memory access should also be vulnerable. *
>* *
>* unaffected_configurations: *
>* NetBSD 1.4.x on arm32 and x86 platforms were tested and found to not *
>* panic. However, this is only because these (and a few other untested) *
>* platforms do not page fault on unaligned memory accesses. *
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the 68000 does
not fault on unaligned memory access. Therefore no problem here.
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