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From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Longword alignment with 68020
Message-ID: <3503@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 25 Feb 89 06:31:00 GMT
References: <712@cord.UUCP> <10803@well.UUCP>
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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.)

...and an entire class of bugs becomes harder to find.  Sigh.
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