Feb. 24, 2013
10:50 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka@gmail.com> wrote:
what is the relation between atomic operations and memory alignment ?
I read from UTLK that "an unaligned memory access is not atomic"
please explain me , I am not able to get the relationship between memory alignment and atomicity of the operation.
Not all CPUs support unaligned memory access, such an access may cause a fault which needs to be fixed by the kernel... -- Thanks, //richard