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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: Architectures with strict alignment?
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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