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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 20:40:40 GMT
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In article <2234@spim.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>>The double is word aligned?! 
>Yes.  The MIPS-I architecture requires word alignment for doubles.

I meant to say that MIPS-I requires *at least* word-alignment.  MIPS-II
requires double-word alignment, but then again, it wouldn't have generated
that code...
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>ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                  MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
>MS 6-05    930 DeGuigne Dr.   Sunnyvale, CA  94088              +1 408 524-7421
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                  MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
MS 6-05    930 DeGuigne Dr.   Sunnyvale, CA  94088              +1 408 524-7421
"10 years of Reagan/Bush have brought us to a new place: postconstitutional
America." - Jon Carroll     rogerk@mips.COM | {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk