Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 05:47:50 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2024Jun3.074750@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7c9abe69abf444e1dea965f6056d1833"; logging-data="3965064"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Qu4geJX2iYFYaslII75cP" Cancel-Lock: sha1:2P/SxEKG3Anr1+2Rkm3EbqVTEJA= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 1692 jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) writes: >In article , tkoenig@netcologne.de (Thomas >Koenig) wrote: > >> There are POWER8 machines on sale on E-bay, on which you can run >> either Linux or AIX, and bigendian too, if you want. > >Yup. Considered that. Their trapping is not as comprehensive as zSeries, >and I could not justify them. SPARCs are big-endian and trap on unaligned access (at least that was the case when I last used one long ago), while S/370 ff. does not trap on unaligned access. What's wrong with SPARC? What other trapping do you have in mind? - anton -- 'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.' Mitch Alsup,