On 13/02/2015 7:06 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:

On 13/02/15 08:56, Daniel Cederman wrote:
> Daniel(s), could enlighten me why this is needed ? Is this a arch
> constraint or something else ?
>
> Chris

It is an arch constraint. On SPARC, for example, all memory accesses
needs to a be aligned. From the SPARC V8 manual:

"Halfword accesses must be aligned on 2-byte boundaries, word accesses
must be aligned on 4-byte boundaries, and doubleword accesses must be
aligned on 8-byte boundaries. An improperly aligned address in a load
or store instruction causes a trap to occur."

Since the capture engine does a 64-bit write when it writes the time,
the entries needs to be aligned on 8-byte boundaries.

If you need this hack in the test, then there is a bug in the caputure
engine.


Agreed, and what I was wondering.

Maybe the capture engine needs a buffer alignment arg so the data transfers match up.

Chris
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