From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Robert Finch  writes:   
   >The issue with this is it does not go backwards to   
   >get the address fetched again from the TLB. Meaning no check is made for   
   >protection or translation of the address.   
   >   
   >It would be quite slow to have the instructions reissued and percolate   
   >down the cache access again.   
      
   Unaligned access on a page boundary is extremely slow on the Core 2   
   Duo (IIRC 160 cycles for a store).  So don't be shy:-)   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
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