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Article #27217Re: assembly question
From: dyer
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1987 15:21
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1987 15:21
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in article <4643@utah-cs.UUCP>, sandra@utah-cs.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore) says:
> Is there a way to tell the Alcyon assembler to force a data object (declared
> with dc.?, for example) to be aligned on a particular boundary? For
> instance, the VAX/VMS assembler lets me say something like .align 8 and it
> will force alignment on a 256-byte (2**8) boundary. If Alcyon doesn't
> allow it, are there any other assemblers for the ST that do?
In Alcyon [no one can hear you scream] all you can say is:
.even
to get 16-bit alignment. If you want absolute alignment ("put this
instruction on an 8-byte boundary") you will have to do that at
run-time, since applications can be loaded into memory at any even
address.
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