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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading Text With Pointers...
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.000343.5393@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Jan 91 00:03:43 GMT
References: <50164@cornell.UUCP> <5189@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <5189@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:

>	The 68000 does allow unaligned access to bytes, but not to words
>or longwords.

There is no such thing as an unaligned byte access.  Every byte is at an
address that is 0 modulo (sizeof(byte)).  On the 68000, word and longword
accesses only have to be aligned to word boundaries (i.e. a longword can
have an address that ends ...xxx10) because the bus is only word sized.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)