Re: Unaligned Trap problems.

On Monday 03 June 2002 10:24, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
> These are warnings only, meaning there are data items not properly aligned
> on 64-bit boundaries. The program incurs a performance hit if there are
> many traps in critical sections, YMMV. If you don't do A LOT of gs printing
> I would guess you could safely ignore the warnings.
>
Hmmm.. I am at the moment... Just looks damned ugly...

> Recompilation might help... I'm not sufficielntly well versed in gcc/ccc on
> Alpha, but at least on VMS there are switches forcing the compiler to align
> all data on proper boundaries. This can of course cause problems if the
> program is supposed to exchange data structures as blobs with other
> programs or files. In the gs case I suspect there might be problems with
> the font files. The proper thing to do would be to recompile, then check
> the compiler warnings and carefully examine the code to see if the data can
> be safely realigned.
>
That would rule me out!
I am almost illiterate when it comes to coding...
Hardware is more my game :)


> /Lennart
>

Thanx ever so much tho...

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         /Rikard

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