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From: aglew@dwarfs.csg.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew)
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Subject: Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?
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Terminology check:

I have been informed that DEC VAX designers call the overlap case,
the case where a data field overlaps two bus widths, non-aligned.
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Andy Glew, aglew@uiuc.edu