On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:49 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Apparently the only somewhat-modern architecture that is resolutely > unaligned-unfriendly is MIPS.
It's been a few years now since I worked on that architecture, but Sparc is somewhat-modern and resolutely unaligned-unfriendly. It's just that you can optionally install a trap handler that will do super slow non-atomic misaligned access in software instead of blowing up with SIGBUS. With the Sun toolchain you did that explicitly by building with -misalign (though it's possible that more recent compilers might be doing that without being asked?). -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com
