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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][MIPS] Enforce aligned pc
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Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Is it possible that the pc gets unaligned ?

Yes, e.g. due to stack corruption which overwrites the return address.


Thiemo