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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:11:30 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Architectures with strict alignment?
Message-ID:  <47760132.5040306@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org>

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Hi,

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Which of the architectures FreeBSD supports (if any) have strict memory
> alignment requirements? (in the sense that accessing a 32-bit integer
> not aligned on a 32-bit address results in a hardware trap/exception).
> 
isn't this the case with SPARC and Itanium?

I know, they are 64 bits.

Erich



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