decrementing it by 8 when the value in r17 caused an unaligned data fault. I tracked it down to some bad instruction decoding in unaligned.c. The code assumes that the 'x' bit can determine whether the instruction is an "ldf" or "ldfp" ... which it is for opcode=6 (see table 4-29 on page 3:302 of the SDM). But for opcode=7 the 'x' bit is irrelevent, all variants are "ldf" instructions (see table 4-36 on page 3:306). Note also that interpreting the instruction as "ldfp" means that the "paired" floating point register (f35 in the example here) will also be corrupted. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck ͜'x