> That is correct. The addresses need to be aligned as per the restrictions in > the architecture. Yes we could have an issue but software writers need to > deal with it because IIUC you either have a huge performance penalty (x86 / > lock prefix) or correctness issues (ARM, Powerpc) .
Ok thanks, I buy the performance argument and I found on the wiki page below that these issues will be treated in the GCC/libatomic in 4.9 release. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/GCCMM/UnalignedPolicy Cheers, Yvan _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
