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		kevin_thibedeau on Sept 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s ex... Tons of x86 code is dereferencing unaligned addresses. Those have to be fixed before porting to ARM.

my123 on Sept 10, 2020 [–]

This isn't applicable to 64-bit Arm at the user application level, don't worry about it.

Prior to that, unaligned memory accesses were perfectly usable on ARMv7 (and even v6) too, this was fixed a while ago.

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