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From: UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET
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Subject: ALIGN
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Date: 31 Jan 91 20:55:00 GMT
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> There is no need to use ALIGN before each and every @ or ! as you seem to be
> saying.  @ and ! *must* have address aligned addresses, just as C@ and C!
> *must* have character aligned addresses.  The use of ALIGN is simply when
> moving from a character to an address aligned address.  When all is said
> and done, this does not happen that often.

No need of ALIGN before @ or !, that's right. In almost any case, anyway. BUT,
when you (to use FIG-Forth vocabulary, and I think 79S too), when you <BUILDS
things, you need to ALIGN it. And, if the word DOES> nothing, the user will
have to use ALIGN before @ and ! too.

> Peter Knaggs,

                              (8-DCS)
Daniel C. Sobral
UNBCIC@BRFAPESP.BITNET