There have to be some strict-aligned architectures which don't emulate
unaligned access, because there will always be architectures which have
a high emulation cost, and I'm ok with alpha joining that group.
Miod Vallat wrote:
> The alpha part contains code in the kernel to handle unaligned mem
On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:39:31 -, Miod Vallat wrote:
> The alpha part contains code in the kernel to handle unaligned memory
> accesses from userland programs, to prevent them from dying in horrible
> SIGBUS.
>
> This made sense in the '90s, but since then people have learned to work
> with stri
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 07:39:31PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> The alpha part contains code in the kernel to handle unaligned memory
> accesses from userland programs, to prevent them from dying in horrible
> SIGBUS.
>
> This made sense in the '90s, but since then people have learned to work
> wit
The alpha part contains code in the kernel to handle unaligned memory
accesses from userland programs, to prevent them from dying in horrible
SIGBUS.
This made sense in the '90s, but since then people have learned to work
with strict-alignment architectures, and this code has been less and
less tr
