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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Un-alignment in structures
Message-ID: <317@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 05:13:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 16 05:13:14 1985
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It is not accurate to say that the VAX has no alignment restrictions.  While
a VAX can handle unaligned data, the performance penalty for doing so is
significant.  Aligned data is almost always what you want.

Nevertheless, it wouldn't have killed the PCC-porters to include a
command-line compiler option to turn off alignment for those rare cases when
external unaligned data formats have to be matched....
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