Project:SPARC/Arch tester/sparc-quiz

SPARC architecture team quiz

Revision 1.0 - 03 Aug 2009

Answer in whatever length necessary for completeness.

Consult the AT Lead if you're unable to locate answers.


 * 1) Does SPARC run 64-bit code?
 * 2) What's endianness? Is SPARC a big or little-endian architecture?
 * 3) Why is it so important to respect the user's CFLAGS on SPARC?
 * 4) (a) Explain what is an unaligned memory access.
 * (b) What can you do to help the package maintainer if testing shows a Bus Error?