Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 09:20 +0100 (BST) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <2024Jun3.074750@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: jgd@cix.co.uk Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:20:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="173153c0af69d74b60712a368481f675"; logging-data="4019176"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wRWxHDMuHdf4Tgu+CP20z9XAQyiSxQ/k=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:wZT9vKVzy25H/kIM504bpihwY00= X-Clacks-Overhead-header: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 1227 In article <2024Jun3.074750@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote: > 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. OK, that shoots down S/370 for this job. John