Can PowerPC do unaligned accesses or not? I'm bringing this up *again*, because the fragmentary dialog on ICB about how powerpc is supposed to behave doesn't agree with observable reality.
| <miod> some models can afford unaligned access with a msr setting, | but we frown upon this and won't enable this anyway | <miod> so: no. | <deraadt> we should keep running powerpc strict align. The reality is that we *do* support unaligned accesses, at least on the machines people test on. sthen@ noticed when testing the proposed port for snappy (Google's fast compression library) that unaligned accesses work fine and is reluctant to disable them in the port. I just noticed that archivers/xz also uses unaligned accesses on powerpc and nobody has complained to me that it breaks. I don't have a problem with disabling unaligned accesses in ports on powerpc, but without errors we are unlikely to find all of them and what's the justification then? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
