Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:52:21 -0700 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unaligned 64-bits access on FreeBSD/powerpc Message-ID: <44D245E5.4070102@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <44D2419F.1050100@FreeBSD.org> References: <44D23F02.9020709@FreeBSD.org> <200608031826.k73IQX835138@makai.watson.ibm.com> <44D2419F.1050100@FreeBSD.org>
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> Well, actually *nix has a long history of just killing the program with > SIGBUS in such case. > > I am just wondering if it's really expected behavior on FreeBSD/powerpc > or not. No :( What system are you running on ? I was pretty sure that G3/G4 CPUs allowed unaligned accesses unless you explicitly disabled it (except for cases such as vector ops). A 64 bit op on these CPUs should decompose into separate 32-bit accesses ala i386 so the same case should occurr for unaligned 32-bit ops. In any event, the default should be that unaligned accesses are handled, and then have switches to optionally uprintf the address, or SIGBUS. later, Peter.home | help
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