On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Dan Fandrich wrote:
>
> >The big one for SPARC IIRC was that it didn't handle unaligned word
> >accesses.
>
> Neither does older ARM architectures and some others that I can't recall
> just now. But in those cases I believe unaligned accesses cause bus errors
> when they are attempted. I would expect such errors to crash curl rather
> than to just cause "simple" test failures, right?

It's been waaay too long since I worked with SPARC, so you're probably right. I
thought in some cases they could be ignored, but it probably wasn't the
default behaviour.

>>> Dan
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