computer-architecture

Why misaligned address access incur 2 or more accesses?

The normal answers to why data alignment is to access more efficiently and to simplify the design of CPU. A relevant question and its answers is here. And another source is here. But they both do not resolve my question. Suppose a CPU has a access granularity of 4 bytes. That means the CPU reads 4 bytes at a time. The material I li...