Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access | From | Olaf Titz <> | Date | Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:13:48 +0100 |
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> Unaligned memory accesses occur when you try to read N bytes of data starting > from an address that is not evenly divisible by N (i.e. addr % N != 0).
Should clarify that you mean "with power-of-two N" - even more strictly this depends on the processor, but I'm pretty sure there is none which supports aligned accesses of N==3...
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