>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> writes: Ian> Hi, Ian> This isn't directly related to kernel development, but I am a bit Ian> stumped as to why my test program below causes an unaligned Ian> access when 'i' is 7 (that is, when it tries to access across a Ian> 64 bit boundary of 'array'). It's counter intuitive to me, I Ian> would have expected it either fault on all loads (for every value Ian> of 'i') or to have not faulted at all. The IA64 can handle unaligned acceses itself if they're within a small window -- eight bytes for Itanium-2, can't remember for Itanium-I -- and if PSR.ac is 0. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all slightly different. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Sep 24 22:05:30 2003
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