Re: Architectures with strict alignment?

Quoting M. Warner Losh, who wrote on Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:22:21PM -0700 ..
In message: <fl4c8o$vpu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

In the past the alpha port had it too.

Warner

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