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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:27:00 -0000
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
Cc: sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Misaligned read/write of memory by GDB
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OK, but did you consider an alternate of having a memory target that
is unable to handle an unaligned access return sid::bus::misaligned,
and then have gdb back down to byte-by-byte access?

- FChE