Xref: utzoo comp.arch:13307 comp.lang.c:25257 Path: 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: 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 > 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. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'