Re: SerializeParamList vs machines with strict alignment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SerializeParamList vs machines with strict alignment
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Msg-id 4694.1538438514@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: SerializeParamList vs machines with strict alignment  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:49 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Apparently the only somewhat-modern architecture that is resolutely
>> unaligned-unfriendly is MIPS.

> It's been a few years now since I worked on that architecture, but
> Sparc is somewhat-modern and resolutely unaligned-unfriendly.  It's
> just that you can optionally install a trap handler that will do super
> slow non-atomic misaligned access in software instead of blowing up
> with SIGBUS.  With the Sun toolchain you did that explicitly by
> building with -misalign (though it's possible that more recent
> compilers might be doing that without being asked?).

Interesting ... I suppose we'd have seen that on the Sparc critters,
except that they weren't running with force_parallel_mode = regress
like chipmunk is.

Now I'm tempted to propose that Amit commit *just* the test case
and not the fix, and wait a day to see which buildfarm critters fail.

            regards, tom lane


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