[Info-vax] x86-64 data aligment / faulting
Mark Daniel
mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au
Fri Feb 25 18:57:11 EST 2022
On 26/2/22 8:23 am, Mark Daniel wrote:
> Alpha and Itanium had data alignment requirements with penalties for
> faulting. Does x86-64? Is sys$start_align_fault_report() et al. still
> relevant?
Hmmm. Using an alignment fault generator and reporter I'm seeing plenty
on Alpha and Itanium; zero on x86-64.
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