[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: What is the current support state for Sparc emulation

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 15:11:00 CEST 2007


> > Maybe write_long should handle unaligned addresses?
>
> Possibly. But something is wrong.
>
> Unaligned accesses should be done with unaligned-l@  ( addr -- quad )
> instead of l at .
>
> So either the pointer was calculated wrong or Solaris does not care
> about alignment in l@
>
> If you change it, please make the change specific to sparc.

I noticed that the memory allocators either don't enforce alignment or
align just to 4. That could be one reason for the problem.



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