Architectures with strict alignment?

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Sat Dec 29 11:43:18 PST 2007


Quoting M. Warner Losh, who wrote on Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:22:21PM -0700 ..
> In message: <fl4c8o$vpu$1 at ger.gmane.org>
>             Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> writes:
> : Which of the architectures FreeBSD supports (if any) have strict memory
> : alignment requirements? (in the sense that accessing a 32-bit integer
> : not aligned on a 32-bit address results in a hardware trap/exception).
> 
> Sparc64, powerpc, arm, and (thanks to Juniper and others) mips.

In the past the alpha port had it too.

> Warner
> 
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