Architectures with strict alignment?

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Sat Dec 29 00:10:06 PST 2007


Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
> 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).

I believe ARM has such requirements (at least,
GCC for Arm does some very intriguing structure
padding).

Tim Kientzle



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