On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:57 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:25:35PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >However, since unaligned accesses often cause bus errors, too, my guess > >is that it's quite a bit more likely for a SIGBUS to be caused by > >programmer error than a corrupted binary... > > Yes, but i386 and amd64 don't require aligned accesses. <snip>
They do for some SSE instructions. I don't know what the result of
using an unaligned address is though.
Ben.
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