> Most architectures are unable to perform unaligned memory accesses. Any > unaligned access causes a processor exception.
Not all. Some simply produce the wrong answer - thats oh so much more exciting. > You may be wondering why you have never seen these problems on your own > architecture. Some architectures (such as i386 and x86_64) do not have this > limitation, but nevertheless it is important for you to write portable code > that works everywhere. Its usually faster if you don't misalign on x86 as well. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
