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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 32 bits CHIP ram
Summary: We already have 64-bit alignment.
Keywords: Allocating memory on 4 or 8 byte boundaries
Message-ID: <1264@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 08:36:56 GMT
References: <447392@neabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <447392@neabbs.UUCP> rrs@neabbs.UUCP (RONALD VAN EIJCK) writes:
>We all hope Chip ram will be 32 bits wide some day. So my suggestion is
>that we all start to change the allignment of data in chip memory to 32 bits
>so there will be no problems if commodore wants to change this.

For dynamically allocated memory objects, there is no need to change anything.
The AllocMem() function is documented as returning a pointer to memory that
is allocated on an 8-byte boundary.  So, we have better than 32-bit alignment
already; we have 64-bit alignment.
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