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Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:46:25 +0000
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)bobich.net>
To: andy(a)warmcat.com
Andy Green wrote:
On 01/07/11 16:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> [root@sheeva ~]# cat /proc/cpu/alignment
> User: 12230853
> System: 1
> Skipped: 0
> Half: 0
> Word: 0
> DWord: 1
> Multi: 0
> User faults: 0 (ignored)
I wrote about the alignment issue here on ARM:
http://warmcat.com/_wp/2007/05/25/the-alignment-monster/
Aha, I know what you are talking about now, and I am aware of such
issues. Here is a similar article a friend of mine wrote:
http://www.altechnative.net/?p=48
What I wasn't aware of was that you can change alignment via
/proc/cpu/alignment. What, exactly does that do?
Gordan