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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unaligned data and old FORTRAN
Keywords: RISC alignment FORTRAN validation suite
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Date: 8 Apr 89 22:42:33 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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>Fortunately for current RISCs, the only legal kind of misalignment in Fortran
>77 puts a doubleword on a singleword boundary, and processors with 32-bit
>busses tend not to notice that.

SPARC notices it, though.  (Was this put into the architecture for the
benefit of potential future implementations with 64-bit buses?)