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    Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

    > Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.

    Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions. This is probably
    particularly true of NOMMU-mode archs where the CPU designed may have taken
    the view that if a data exception is delivered, then the whole system is kaput
    anyway and must be restarted.

    > The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your
    > architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable.

    I thought we'd fixed all that.

    David
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