Utility to control the printing of "Fixed up unaligned data access for pid

nnn at pc 0xADDR" and the fixup of the UA fault on the DEC Alpha when an
unaligned access fault happens.  Modeled after the OSF/1 utility of the
same name.

Submitted by:	gallatin

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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd January 18, 2000
+.Dt UAC 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm uac
+.Nd Unaligned Access Message Control
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm uac
+.Op Fl fprs
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+sets the per-process handling of "Unaligned Access" events.  Unlike many
+other CPU's the DEC Alpha processor cannot access unaligned data.  To work
+around this, the Alpha has the ability to fix the UA fault rather than send
+the faulting process a SIGBUS signal.  However, doing so does slow down the
+execution of the faulting process.
+At boot up, the DEC Alpha CPU defaults to printing "Fixed up unaligned data
+access for pid nnn at pc 0xADDR" when a UA happens along with fixing it so
+the faulting instruction can continue.
+UA handling settings are inherited by child process.
+Issued with out any options,
+.Mn
+displays the current UA handling for the parent process.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Fl
+.It Fl f
+Unaligned access errors are not fixed for the parent and its future descendants.
+.It Fl p
+Unaligned access errors are not printed for the parent and its future
+descendants.
+.It Fl r
+Resets the unaligned access error settings back to their bootup defaults.
+.It Fl s
+Unaligned access errors result in a SIGBUS being delivered to the parent and
+its future descendants.  This aid in pin pointing the faulting access so it
+debugged.
+.El
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
+fails for any reason.
+.El
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The
+.Nm
+command syntax is incompatible with the DEC OSF/1 syntax.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr signal 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm
+first appeared in DEC OSF/1.
+.Pp
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Fx
+version of
+.Nm
+was originally written by
+.An Andrew Gallatin Aq gallatin@cs.duke.edu
+and modified by
+.An David E. O'Brien Aq obrien@FreeBSD.org .
+This
+manual page was written by
+.An David E. O'Brien Aq obrien@FreeBSD.org .