Depends on the processor. Some RISC systems won't generate a fault, but others will. Some of the non-faulting ones will load unaligned data correctly (even acro

Depends on the processor. Some RISC systems won't generate a fault, but others will. Some of the non-faulting ones will load unaligned data correctly (even across page boundaries), while others will helpfully swizzle bytes around in the result for you, or ignore the low bits. "It depends."