On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:49 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Apparently the only somewhat-modern architecture that is resolutely
> unaligned-unfriendly is MIPS.
It's been a few years now since I worked on that architecture, but
Sparc is somewhat-modern and resolutely unaligned-unfriendly. It's
just that you can optionally install a trap handler that will do super
slow non-atomic misaligned access in software instead of blowing up
with SIGBUS. With the Sun toolchain you did that explicitly by
building with -misalign (though it's possible that more recent
compilers might be doing that without being asked?).
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Thomas Munro
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