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From: dyer@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: assembly question
Message-ID: <760@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 11:21:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 11:21:40 1987
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in article <4643@utah-cs.UUCP>, sandra@utah-cs.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore) says:
> Is there a way to tell the Alcyon assembler to force a data object (declared
> with dc.?, for example) to be aligned on a particular boundary?  For
> instance, the VAX/VMS assembler lets me say something like .align 8 and it 
> will force alignment on a 256-byte (2**8) boundary.  If Alcyon doesn't
> allow it, are there any other assemblers for the ST that do?

In Alcyon [no one can hear you scream] all you can say is:

	.even

to get 16-bit alignment.  If you want absolute alignment ("put this
instruction on an 8-byte boundary") you will have to do that at
run-time, since applications can be loaded into memory at any even
address.

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