Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Longword alignment with 68020
Message-ID: <6080@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 22:20:05 GMT
References: <712@cord.UUCP> <10803@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10803@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	As an extra added bonus, the '020 will read and write words on odd
>*byte* boundaries (but you pay a heavy performance penalty).  An entire
>class of Gurus almost disappears!  (Type 00000003, Address error.)

	Right, the Guru is not a 3.  However, instead of guruing it grabs 
bad data and runs with it, maybe corrupting things without indication. :-(

	Now where was that 68000/68010 address error compatibility bit....
(just joking)

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup