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On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:43 PM, 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).

ia64 and sparc64 at least.

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