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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by j16sdiz on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:39AM (#17441490)
Afaik, sparcs and many other traditional unix-running cpus does not support unaligned memory access
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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by jschwartzi on Monday July 02, 2018 @11:43AM (#17442617)
Technically, neither does ARM. Although you can enable emulation for unaligned accesses. One of the first things I did when setting up QNX was enabling emulation for unaligned accesses to eliminate a SIGBUS termination on some of our applications.
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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by monocasa on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:12PM (#17444065)
ARM supports it now, and with next to no perf cost.
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