[Info-vax] nice for VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <49e3a2d5$0$90266$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> If it is Solaris/SPARC it is a problem even once a day.
> 
> Because unaligned access crashes the program (segmentation fault).

   The last time I used the gcc compiler on Solaris it would not
   generate packed data.  So I looked at the Sun compiler and it would.
   I assume that the Sun compiler generates the extra code needed to
   avoid unaligned accesses.

   I think the current version of the gnu compiler will also generate
   packed data and the extra code needed to make it work.