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To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:26:33 -0400
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Unaligned 64-bits access on FreeBSD/powerpc 
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>>>>> Maxim Sobolev writes:

Maxim> I came over a problem that unaligned 64-bits access to a memory (via 
Maxim> uint8_t or long long pointer) causes SIGBUS. Is it expected behavior or not?

	The kernel should catch and fixup any unaligned accesses that the
hardware does not allow.

David