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From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz (Graeme Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS, Compaq and Microsoft in bed - NYT story
Message-ID: <5978@labtam.labtam.oz>
Date: 17 Feb 91 23:24:59 GMT
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In article <3199@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
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>   It is a good point, though, that the hardware must provide allignment,
> even if it can handle unalligned addresses. Note that Convex does this
> by trapping the access, faking it in software, and generating a
> nastygram for the user to encourage fixing the code.

	Ah yes, but the point is, how does the trap software fake it without
doing logical operations on the fault address ? :-)

	Graeme Gill