HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0

Joseph Koshy joseph.koshy at gmail.com
Fri May 19 11:49:43 UTC 2006


> SPARC definitely requires aligned accesses.  I'm not sure what Sun
> did with the SPARC64.  The other option is to set the "alignment
> checking" bit on i386.

The AC bit only works for privilege level 3 (userland code) on the i386.

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