On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Michael Ash <michael....@gmail.com> wrote: > That has to be the most confusing technical document I've ever seen. > I'm not certain, but after reading it about three times, I'm pretty > sure that it's discussing data alignment on IA-64 (Itanium), not > x86-64. Microsoft certainly thinks that x86-64 supports unaligned data > access, with speed penalties:
EM64T == x86_64, so I'm not sure *what* Intel is trying to say. > And a quick test confirms that my Mac Pro, at least, has no trouble > reading a misaligned int pointer. Could be GCC's codegen giving you a helping hand. I don't have an assembler handy on this machine (except GNU as, but I don't know AT&T syntax) so I can't try it. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
