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RISC can do thatRISC can do thatPosted Jul 22, 2009 18:13 UTC (Wed) by klossner (subscriber, #30046)In reply to: Fun with NULL pointers, part 1 by clugstj Parent article: Fun with NULL pointers, part 1
PowerPC silently drops the two low bits when loading an address into the PC, so a branch to 1 becomes a branch to 0. The misaligned-address exception occurs only for load/store instructions.
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