From: Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unaligned access question
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:23:11 +0000 [thread overview]
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On 25 Sep 2003, Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This isn't directly related to kernel development, but I am a bit
> stumped as to why my test program below causes an unaligned access
> when 'i' is 7 (that is, when it tries to access across a 64 bit
> boundary of 'array'). It's counter intuitive to me, I would have
> expected it either fault on all loads (for every value of 'i') or to
> have not faulted at all.
I think adding
__attribute__ ((aligned (1)))
will make it read the structure in a way that can handle less-aligned
addresses. (Or maybe 2-byte aligned.) By default gcc assumes strong
alignment so that it can use faster operations (ld8 or something I
suppose).
As Peter said unaligned access will not necessarily trap.
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Martin
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-25 1:34 Unaligned access question Ian Wienand
2003-09-25 2:04 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-25 2:23 ` Martin Pool [this message]
2003-09-25 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab
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