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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:57:03 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Architectures with strict alignment?
Message-ID:  <3AE88C61-4458-441C-8DDF-2B68AC63C72F@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:43 PM, 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).

ia64 and sparc64 at least.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com





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