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> Actually, since the 486, it's been possible for us to turn on unaligned
> access exceptions on the x86.  We should probably consider doing this, to
> ensure better performance, and to avoid the unnecessary bus overhead we
> eat for unaligned access today... not to mention how it could shake out
> the drivers.


Now *that* is a very cool idea. As Johnny Carson would say "I did not know
that". How would this be done? I assume it's some bit-flip for the chip?
D'ya have a sample bit 'o code for this?

-matt



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