From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:13:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IwIF2-0003eP-GH@bigred.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071123001554.12F8B9D4A1F@zog.reactivated.net>
> 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...
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-25 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-23 0:15 Daniel Drake
2007-11-23 0:27 ` Avuton Olrich
2007-11-23 1:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-23 3:04 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-11-23 6:18 ` dean gaudet
2007-11-23 9:46 ` Arne Georg Gleditsch
2007-11-26 14:50 ` dean gaudet
2007-11-23 1:29 ` David Miller
2007-11-23 10:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-23 11:43 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-11-25 11:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-11-25 11:24 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-11-26 0:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-26 17:12 ` Ben Dooks
2007-11-27 7:51 ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-23 22:02 ` Vadim Lobanov
2007-11-23 22:52 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2007-11-24 13:34 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-11-24 15:50 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-11-24 16:19 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-11-24 17:22 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-11-24 17:35 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-11-24 18:28 ` Luciano Rocha
2007-11-24 17:53 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-11-25 8:27 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-11-25 14:13 ` Olaf Titz [this message]
2007-11-26 9:14 ` DM
2007-11-26 14:47 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-27 0:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-11-26 14:51 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-30 8:18 ` Jörn Engel
[not found] <fa.U+CIv4JClOmn6KppLkEOSk7RW0Y@ifi.uio.no>
2007-11-23 1:24 ` Robert Hancock
2007-11-23 2:07 ` Andi Kleen
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