Architectures with strict alignment?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Dec 29 11:22:33 PST 2007


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.

Warner



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