Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, 2014-11-24, 11:07:
> > > Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was 
> > > trying to fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience 
> > > with liblo shows that other architectures are just fine (or at least 
> > > are just slower) with this type of unalignment.
> >
> > IME, sprac buildds are the only ones where where unaligned access in a 
> > build-time test suite triggers SIGBUS/SIGSEGV.
>
> On armel and armhf you can enable SIGBUS on unaligned access with:
>
> echo 4 > /proc/cpu/alignment

Can we get this enabled on buildds?

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Jakub Wilk