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

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> [070720 15:11]:
> > 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.

In OpenBIOS? That should definitely be fixed!

Alignment to 4 should be fine for l@ though..

Stefan

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