Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.210231.15427@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <111@melpar.UUCP> <12780024@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 21:02:31 GMT

In article <12780024@acf4.NYU.EDU> tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) writes:
>		long a :13,35;
>		...
>where a is a long integer stored in bits 13 thorugh 35...

Bit 13, you say?  Is that the 13th (or 14th) bit from the left, or the
13th (or 14th) bit from the right?  And if it's from the right, how big
is the unit of bits, i.e. how far is bit 0 from the leftmost bit?
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