On 09/08/2014 03:43 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > This was years ago (possibly decades). We had to implement in-kernel > unaligned traps for the networking layer because it could access short > and int fields that weren't of the correct alignment when processing > packets. It that's all corrected now, we wouldn't really notice (except > a bit of a speed up since an unaligned trap effectively places the > broken out instructions into the bit stream). > > James > Well, ARM doesn't trap, it just silently gives garbage on unaligned memory references. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
