Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!yale!cmcl2!acf4!tihor From: tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Handling mis-alignment (was Re: RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems? Message-ID: <12780025@acf4.NYU.EDU> Date: 7 Feb 90 00:45:00 GMT References: <2038@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 4 Since I am a little endian its the same anyway you look at it. SInce these are mostly non-portable it mostly matters how you stuff them on each machine. Only portabilit requirement I can see is that the field occupy the SIZE bits (or |RIGHT-LEFT|+1 bits)