Architectures with strict alignment?

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Sat Dec 29 00:11:42 PST 2007


Hi,

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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).
> 
isn't this the case with SPARC and Itanium?

I know, they are 64 bits.

Erich


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