On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 19:54 +0000, Barry Scott wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2021, at 12:40, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm talking about 16-bit memory alignment which causes SIGBUS if it's > > > not respected on m68k. > > > > > > > I don't understand why you consider this to be a problem. After all, > > x86 has stronger (32-bit) alignment requirements, so m68k is actually > > less likely to break. > > On x86 you can make unaligned access to memory. > Alignment is a nice to have for performance.
Except that modern compilers can emit optimized instructions that rely on aligned memory (e.g. SSE2), so a badly written program can crash on x86 as well. -- Best regards, Michał Górny _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/GCRBLCAK3OBP466QPNLD5KFH5ATBOBWP/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
