[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Gordan Bobic]

Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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

Does changing the /proc/cpu/alignment setting from 0 (ignored) to 2 
(fixup) come with a noticeable performance penalty?

Gordan