[fedora-arm] Fwd: Re: Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Andy Green]

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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 at bobich.net>
To: andy at warmcat.com

Andy Green wrote:
> On 01/07/11 16:15, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>> [root at 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