Subject: bug#46111: Reverting fns.c hash function due to OpenBSD/SPARC64 compile breaking

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:14:47 -0500

Andreas Schwab [2021-01-28 17:04:19] wrote:

> On Jan 28 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>>>> - I'd guess that the bus error is due to alignment restrictions.
>>>>   What hardware is this running on?
>>> See the Subject: it's SPARC64.
>>
>> I mean the actual hardware, not the architecture.
>
> Strict alignment is a property of the architecture, not the hardware.

IIRC some RISC architectures *allowed* errors on unaligned memory
accesses without requiring it, making it a property of the hardware.

        Stefan