On 2018-01-11 13:26:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I wonder whether there is a way to get alignment traps on Intel-type > hardware. It's getting less and less likely that most hackers are > developing on anything else, so that we don't see gotchas of this > type until code hits the buildfarm (and even then, only if the case > is actually exercised in regression testing).
It's possible, but a lot of code out there, including things like glibc, assumes that unaligned accesses are fine. Therefore it's very painful to use. Greetings, Andres Freund
