Unaligned 64-bits access on FreeBSD/powerpc

David Edelsohn dje at watson.ibm.com
Thu Aug 3 18:26:53 UTC 2006


>>>>> Maxim Sobolev writes:

Maxim> I came over a problem that unaligned 64-bits access to a memory (via 
Maxim> uint8_t or long long pointer) causes SIGBUS. Is it expected behavior or not?

	The kernel should catch and fixup any unaligned accesses that the
hardware does not allow.

David



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