machdep.c

/*
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 *
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 * Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors.'' Neither the name of
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 */

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif

#include <stddef.h>

#ifdef __osf__
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/sysinfo.h>
#include <sys/proc.h>
#endif /* __osf__ */

#include "varattrs.h"
#include "machdep.h"

/*
 * On platforms where the CPU doesn't support unaligned loads, force
 * unaligned accesses to abort with SIGBUS, rather than being fixed
 * up (slowly) by the OS kernel; on those platforms, misaligned accesses
 * are bugs, and we want tcpdump to crash so that the bugs are reported.
 *
 * The only OS on which this is necessary is DEC OSF/1^W^WDigital
 * UNIX^W^WTru64 UNIX.
 */
int
abort_on_misalignment(char *ebuf _U_, size_t ebufsiz _U_)
{
#ifdef __osf__
	static int buf[2] = { SSIN_UACPROC, UAC_SIGBUS };

	if (setsysinfo(SSI_NVPAIRS, (caddr_t)buf, 1, 0, 0) < 0) {
		(void)snprintf(ebuf, ebufsiz, "setsysinfo: errno %d", errno);
		return (-1);
	}
#endif
	return (0);
}