Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Is handling off-alignment important? Message-ID: <1990Aug8.212255.3555@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <104037@convex.convex.com> <8840014@hpfcso.HP.COM> <2357@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <25900@mimsy.umd.edu> <2392@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 21:22:55 GMT In article mcgrath@homer.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes: >On machines that "don't handle misaligned accesses", what do they do when one >happens anyway?... Mostly they trap. There are probably one or two design groups that were foolish enough to just ignore the low bits. -- The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry