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From: cabbagehead@saturn.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Alignment IS important
Summary: overkill ...
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Date: 25 Sep 90 20:47:38 GMT
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I won't argue that alignment is important, but that code seems like
-major- overkill to me.  In my experience, the times I am doing things
like memcpy are with allocated pointers that *should* be aligned to
begin with, and if need something particularly fast I'll stick to assembler,
and thats very rare.

Chris Lloyd