On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 14:59 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > I also think that it's unnecessary to eliminate all alignment issues -- > in many cases, kernel fixups may actually be cheaper to run than the > defensive code necessary to avoid them, and hardware fixups are even > cheaper. Furthermore, running on an armv7 or higher processor won't > trigger the alignment traps at all, so we won't even know that there are > issues (just as we don't know, nor care, in an x86 context).
(Let me clarify that an app that's generating thousands of alignment traps a second should get some attention! I'm talking about the more typical case of a handful of traps a day). -Chris _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
