Re: Architectures with strict alignment?

Hi,

Kip Macy wrote:
Isn't it everything except x86?

not really.

All RISC based designs need the alignment so that the CPU can fetch a CPU word in one go. CISC based designs do not have this limitiation.

I also do not know of any other CISC based design which made it to mainstream.

Erich

-Kip

On Dec 29, 2007 12:11 AM, Erich Dollansky <oceanare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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