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authorKrste Asanovic <krste@eecs.berkeley.edu>2018-11-05 14:03:09 -0800
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@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ The major changes in this version of the document include:
execution environment interfaces rather then just mandating
invisible handling of misaligned loads and stores in user mode.
This behavior was already needed to support definition of the
- classic privileged architecture.
+ classic privileged architecture. Also, now allow access exceptions
+ to be reported for misaligned access that should not be emulated.
\item FENCE.I moved out of mandatory base and into separate extension,
with Zifencei ISA name. FENCE.I was removed from Linux ABI and is
problematic in implementations with large incoherent instruction and