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Re: 19990524: problem with UDUNITS: unaligned access

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  • Subject: Re: 19990524: problem with UDUNITS: unaligned access
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:45:41 -0600
Lianmei,

>Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:35:19 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Lianmei Gao <address@hidden>
>Organization: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric 
>Science/(RSMAS)/University of Miami
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990524: problem with UDUNITS: unaligned access
>Keywords: 199905241550.JAA27700

In the above message, you wrote:

> Your advice works very well, and now I can run the program with success.

Great!

> But do you know how to get rid of the msg "unaligned access .....", it is
> associated with subroutine udparse. The complete msg is:
> 
> Unaligned access pid=22393 <a.out> va=0x140005474 pc=0x120019c54
> ra=0x120007e38 inst=0x8e100000 
> 
> a lot of thanks again,

You can use the uac(1) utility to set how the operating system handles
unaligned memory accesses -- including automatically fixing them.
Unfortunately, I don't recall the arguments to the utility.  I suggest
you do a 'man 1 uac' to get more information on how to use it.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>