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Article #3454Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:12
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:12
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> I guess all the world's not a Vax any more, now it's a 68020.
Worse, since non-word-aligned values do cost extra cycles to access, any
68020 C compiler that didn't pad that structure is broken. Some "features"
of CISC processors are just too expensive to use.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems? Keywords: risc sun Message-ID: <LJ81OX3ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> Date: 22 Jan 90 13:12:48 GMT References: <111@melpar.UUCP> <1990Jan21.224826.1699@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 5