> On 22 Feb 2021, at 12:40, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> I'm talking about 16-bit memory alignment which causes SIGBUS if it's >> not respected on m68k. >> > > I don't understand why you consider this to be a problem. After all, > x86 has stronger (32-bit) alignment requirements, so m68k is actually > less likely to break.
On x86 you can make unaligned access to memory. Alignment is a nice to have for performance. But on m68k you MUST align or you get a SIGBUS. Barry
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