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Article #12742Re: sizeof(char)
From: mouse
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1986 22:38
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1986 22:38
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In article <3853@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>, jbs@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
> In article <9116@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>> Does the MicroVAX-II have the ability to do a "movl" to an arbitrary
>> *bit* boundary in memory?
Yes, but it's called INSV. Look it up.
> In the general sense, no, but you can move any string of up to 32
> bits from any bit boundry in memory to any other.
I can't see any way of doing this without using a longword-aligned
intermediate stopping place (such as a register). How?
> It is certainly much different than having to read memory in byte (or
> word) boundries and do shifts.
It is.
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