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Note that si_addr may be inaccurate on certain architectures.
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Example: i386/amd64 alignement fault can drive to SIGBUS (when configured
so by process), however the faulty address returned by the CPU is not
reliable.

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jymigeon committed Apr 23, 2012
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.\" $NetBSD: siginfo.2,v 1.5 2010/07/26 12:50:52 christos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: siginfo.2,v 1.6 2012/04/23 17:44:39 jym Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd July 26, 2010
.Dd April 23, 2012
.Dt SIGINFO 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Fa si_trap
contains a hardware specific reason.
.Pp
For some architectures
the value of
.Fa si_addr
may be inaccurate.
.Pp
For
.Dv SIGPOLL
the
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