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Memory access and alignment

Memory access and alignment

Posted Dec 6, 2007 21:12 UTC (Thu) by dsd (guest, #49212)
Parent article: Memory access and alignment

A slightly tweaked version of the document has now been submitted for inclusion with the
kernel documentation. You can read it here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/609571


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Memory access and alignment

Posted Dec 9, 2007 18:28 UTC (Sun) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

On some ARM hardware some of the unaligned accesses may not provide an 
exception, see "Unaligned memory access" here:
http://www.wirelessnetdesignline.com/howto/199901786

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