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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:30:05 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Architectures with strict alignment?
Message-ID:  <4775F77D.4070404@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org>

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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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