Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 21:15 +1000: > >Well.. if you just count the problems with unaligned accesses etc > >I wonder if SPARC64 fills that gap? I just don't know enough about > >SPARC64 here, mind you. > > SPARC definitely requires aligned accesses. I'm not sure what Sun > did with the SPARC64. The other option is to set the "alignment > checking" bit on i386. We also now have arm and ppc that help fill the aligned access requirements.. And I've done a bit of work with arm to try to make our IP stack more friendly to alignment required machines, and ethernet cards that can't handle special alignment... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Fri May 19 2006 - 14:54:01 UTC
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