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From: jordan@aero.org (Larry M. Jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: forcing double word alignment
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.183201.4296@aero.org>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:32:01 GMT
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Is there a compiler directive (c and f77) which guarantees
that all double's will be double word aligned?

I've noticed in some of the symbolic assembly for FORTRAN
things like:

	...
	.align 2
	.align 0
$$13:	.double 1.0e0 : 1
	...

The double is word aligned?! 

--Larry