Subject: Re: Many broken packages use Scheme -- weird!
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/21/1998 16:53:28
> I'm no real expert on ARM, but one surprising (to me, somebody who's
> used to other architectures) thing we found while hacking drivers was
> that unaligned accesses produce "weird" data (basically, the data
> 'rolled' in the register, depending on the address used to fetch it).

Oww.  Shades of the original IBM RT procesor (which "rounded down"
unaligned accesses)

Unaligned accesses silently give you corrupted data?  Ewww...

						- Bill