How to catch data-alignment faults on x86 (aka SIGBUS on Sparc)

Question

Is it somehow possible to catch data-alignment faults even on i386? Maybe by setting a i386 specific machine register or something like that.

On Solaris-Sparc I am r

Answer 1

Intel built in unaligned transfers from the start - it was one of the selling points when x86 was brand new. I understand your reasons for wanting to trap unaligned access, but I don't think it's possible.

Edit: very glad to be proven wrong.