Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.
Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions. This is probably particularly true of NOMMU-mode archs where the CPU designed may have taken the view that if a data exception is delivered, then the whole system is kaput anyway and must be restarted. > The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your > architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable. I thought we'd fixed all that. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
