All, I couldn't find an answer to this, so I apologize if this is already known... For performance reasons, I instrumented the unaligned trap handler on a Linux 2.4.25 MIPs kernel to see when it was used... Oddly enough, the instrumentation triggered on application loads that were dynamically linked to libstdc++.so... What I know so far... This is a cross compile environment so "mipsel-linux" is the cross compiler... Using gcc 3.4.1 Using glibc 2.3.2 Using binutils 2.14.90.0.8 # mipsel-linux-objdump -R libstdc++.so | grep "[^048c] R_MIPS" 00114fe2 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 0011598d R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 00115a96 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 001172b9 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 0011731a R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 0011d525 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 0011d5ae R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 00124be1 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 00124c42 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 0012507d R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 001250fe R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 00125149 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 001251a2 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 001253d1 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 00125456 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 001254ed R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 001259e2 R_MIPS_REL32 __gxx_personality_v0 This seems to be a problem to me? and it doesn't happen on an x86 compile... Any pointers are appreciated... Charles