[Info-vax] x86-64 data aligment / faulting

[Michael S]

On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:20:00 PM UTC+2, Jon Schneider wrote:
> More a case that x86 has always allowed any old alignment though it's 
> expensive. 
> 
> Proper architectures simply don't (and ARM does some rotating on reads). 
> 
> Jon

Both sentences make no sense at all, esp. the 2nd, considering that ARMv7-AR and ARMv8-A 
architectures are identical IA32/AMD64 (a.k.a. x86-64) in nearly all aspects of handling of unaligned accesses.

Most likely, you were victim to DEC's propaganda of early 1990s and didn't pay attention that even DEC themselves
changed the tune 5-7 years later.