function start address allignment

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From: Peter Brouwer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 08:43

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When looking at executables with sdb and dis (unix) I noticed that the
start of a function in a c program is always word alligned. If
the end of the previous function is not before an word alligned addres
nops are added to the code.
My question is: Is this general for compilers/assemblers in unix environment
on 80386 machines?

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From: pb@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Peter Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: function start address allignment
Keywords: word alignment
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Date: 28 Feb 89 08:43:37 GMT
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