On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:39:31 -0000, Miod Vallat wrote: > The alpha part contains code in the kernel to handle unaligned memory > accesses from userland programs, to prevent them from dying in horrible > SIGBUS. > > This made sense in the '90s, but since then people have learned to work > with strict-alignment architectures, and this code has been less and > less triggered - in my own experience I don't remember seeing it > triggered in the last 20 years. > > I think it's time to send it to the Attic for a well-deserved > retirement, and let these ill-behaved userland programs catch the SIGBUS > they deserve.
Makes sense to me. There's no reason alpha needs to suport unaligned memory accesses when we have other strict alignment architectures that don't do the fixup. - todd
