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Unaligned access triggers HardFault on Cortex-M4 #86

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@pavmick

Hi. Just recently I found this project. Looks awesome, thank you for your work.

I'm testing it in QEMU emulating a Cortex-M4 based microcontroller. I am getting a HardFault in function mvm_newNumber() at line 7153:

MVM_FLOAT64* pResult = GC_ALLOCATE_TYPE(vm, MVM_FLOAT64, TC_REF_FLOAT64);
*pResult = value;

Allocation returns a pointer that is not aligned on a 8-byte boundary. To store a double, the compiler generates a STRD instruction which requires such alignment. To work around this, I used memcpy:
memcpy(pResult, &value, sizeof *pResult);

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