Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Alignment on RS/6000 Message-ID: <0=77L72@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 26 Nov 90 15:39:51 GMT References: <893@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> <46760@apple.Apple.COM> <897@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 2 Actually, I'd think there was one environment where all the fancy trapping and fixup for IEEE floating point makes sense: an interpreter. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com