On 17-Jul-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
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>> Actually, since the 486, it's been possible for us to turn on unaligned
>> access exceptions on the x86. We should probably consider doing this, to
>> ensure better performance, and to avoid the unnecessary bus overhead we
>> eat for unaligned access today... not to mention how it could shake out
>> the drivers.
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> Now *that* is a very cool idea. As Johnny Carson would say "I did not know
> that". How would this be done? I assume it's some bit-flip for the chip?
> D'ya have a sample bit 'o code for this?
It's the AC bit in eflags.
> -matt
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