Re: [patch] MIPS: Fix synthesized doubleword transfers (ping)

[cgd at broadcom dot com]

At Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:05:49 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Sandiford" wrote:
> I suppose bad things could happen if you composed an aligned
> address from an unaligned symbol and an unaligned offset,
> but is that allowed?

yes, at least as far as the ISA is concerned.

Also, it's perfectly well defined -- if a little bit strange (and
remarkably slow, since you take an exception 8-) -- to do these
accesses to odd addresses.



chris