--- a/hotspot/src/cpu/sparc/vm/vm_version_sparc.cpp	Fri Mar 27 08:58:45 2015 +0100
+++ b/hotspot/src/cpu/sparc/vm/vm_version_sparc.cpp	Tue Mar 31 12:31:18 2015 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -356,6 +356,13 @@
     (cache_line_size > ContendedPaddingWidth))
     ContendedPaddingWidth = cache_line_size;
 
+  // This machine does not allow unaligned memory accesses
+  if (UseUnalignedAccesses) {
+    if (!FLAG_IS_DEFAULT(UseUnalignedAccesses))
+      warning("Unaligned memory access is not available on this CPU");
+    FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(UseUnalignedAccesses, false);
+  }
+
 #ifndef PRODUCT
   if (PrintMiscellaneous && Verbose) {
     tty->print_cr("L1 data cache line size: %u", L1_data_cache_line_size());