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From: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help-Bus Errors
Message-ID: <1990Feb18.173259.20536@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 90 17:32:59 GMT
References: <1810@lzga.ATT.COM> <1990Feb10.192028.16025@eddie.mit.edu> <22598@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: aryeh@eddie.MIT.EDU (Aryeh M. Weiss)
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In article <22598@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1990Feb10.192028.16025@eddie.mit.edu> aryeh@eddie.mit.edu
>(Aryeh M. Weiss) writes:
>>reference an odd address with a word oriented instruction ... on Vaxes
>>and 68000's ....
>
>As someone else already mentioned, VAXen do not care about address
>alignment except for speed (aligned operands are somewhat faster).

Sorry, my mistake.  I was recalling some of this from some old experiences.
Since I have always seen word aligned Vax code and I just assumed ...

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