[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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