> but with this things going on, the whole reasoning why the patch is
> correct falls apart (if we declare doing so correct).

That's my understanding too. :-(

> Thanks for tracking this down (and I wonder why ia64 bootstrap succeeded
> with trapping misaligned),

Note that SPARC64 bootstrap succeeds too.  The discrepancy SPARC32/SPARC64 
stems from the fact that SPARC32 also uses 64-bit instructions in some cases, 
while there is no 128-bit integer instructions on SPARC64 so word alignment 
is enough in practice.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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