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From: rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: forcing double word alignment
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Date: 12 Apr 91 19:03:30 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.183201.4296@aero.org> jordan@aero.org (Larry M. Jordan) writes:
>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?! 

Yes.  The MIPS-I architecture requires word alignment for doubles.
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