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Re: Fwd: getenv() in glibc
Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
|> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:21:41PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|>
|> > Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
|> >
|> > |> Hi,
|> > |>
|> > |> I just verified Frank's report on Linux/PPC, does this happen on other
|> > |> platforms too?
|> >
|> > I don't know which platforms that are, but it happens on all bigendian
|> > platforms that don't allow unaligned memory accesses (sparc?).
|>
|> I thought all these Linux platforms have support for completing such
|> instructions in software?
It's not about alowing it general, but at the libc level. That's a matter
of speed. You don't want to use unaligned accesses if they are slower
than assembling the individual bytes together.
Andreas.
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