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From: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Can I count on any alignment from NewHandle or NewPtr?
Message-ID: <23706@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 20 Mar 91 01:44:06 GMT
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In article <7496.27e4a472@cc.curtin.edu.au> Lewis_P@cc.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis) writes:
>In article <12563@goofy.Apple.COM>, Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott) writes:
>> Well, hop into Macsbug and do a heap dump (hd).  If every single block is
>> long aligned, then I'd say the odds are really good that you've found out
>> for sure.
>Well, according to this fine probabalistic proof,  the Classic definitely
>word alligns the heap (would be bad if it didn't :-).  And by counter
>example taken from the head it definitely does NOT long word allign the
>heap.

According to another probabalistic proof I have just derived, '030 machines,
or at least the IIci, do long word alignment. Now we need to hear from an
'020 user.
-- 
 Pete Gontier, gurgle@well.sf.ca.us
 Software Imagineer, Kiwi Software, Inc.