What do the unaligned access lines in my dmesg output mean?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta

Symptom:

Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on an Itanium, unaligned access messages from the dmesg output are seen. When running the dmesg command, repeated error messages about applications or the kernel showing unaligned access appear.

For example:

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