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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:26:33 -0400
From:      David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unaligned 64-bits access on FreeBSD/powerpc 
Message-ID:  <200608031826.k73IQX835138@makai.watson.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>  of "Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:22:58 PDT." <44D23F02.9020709@FreeBSD.org> 
References:  <44D23F02.9020709@FreeBSD.org>
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>>>>> Maxim Sobolev writes:

Maxim> I came over a problem that unaligned 64-bits access to a memory (via 
Maxim> uint8_t or long long pointer) causes SIGBUS. Is it expected behavior or not?

	The kernel should catch and fixup any unaligned accesses that the
hardware does not allow.

David
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