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* Handle unaligned accesses by emulation.
*
* This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
* License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
* for more details.
*
* Copyright (C) 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002 by Ralf Baechle
* Copyright (C) 1999 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
*
* This file contains exception handler for address error exception with the
* special capability to execute faulting instructions in software. The
* handler does not try to handle the case when the program counter points
* to an address not aligned to a word boundary.
*
* Putting data to unaligned addresses is a bad practice even on Intel where
* only the performance is affected. Much worse is that such code is non-
* portable. Due to several programs that die on MIPS due to alignment
* problems I decided to implement this handler anyway though I originally
* didn't intend to do this at all for user code.
*
* For now I enable fixing of address errors by default to make life easier.
* I however intend to disable this somewhen in the future when the alignment
* problems with user programs have been fixed. For programmers this is the
* right way to go.
*
* Fixing address errors is a per process option. The option is inherited
* across fork(2) and execve(2) calls. If you really want to use the
* option in your user programs - I discourage the use of the software
* emulation strongly - use the following code in your userland stuff:
*
* #include <sys/sysmips.h>
*
* ...
* sysmips(MIPS_FIXADE, x);
* ...
*
* The argument x is 0 for disabling software emulation, enabled otherwise.
*
* Below a little program to play around with this feature.
*
* #include <stdio.h>
* #include <sys/sysmips.h>
*
* struct foo {
* unsigned char bar[8];
* };
*
* main(int argc, char *argv[])
* {
* struct foo x = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7};
* unsigned int *p = (unsigned int *) (x.bar + 3);
* int i;
*
* if (argc > 1)
* sysmips(MIPS_FIXADE, atoi(argv[1]));
*
* printf("*p = %08lx\n", *p);
*
* *p = 0xdeadface;
*
* for(i = 0; i <= 7; i++)
* printf("%02x ", x.bar[i]);
* printf("\n");
* }
*
* Coprocessor loads are not supported; I think this case is unimportant
* in the practice. |
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