Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:47:04 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed |
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 05:45:40PM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > It should be _at most_ 2 byte aligned. Aligning a 2 byte value to a four > byte boundary doesn't make sense, as you couldn't do it in arrays ...
Ha ha. How nieve you are. There are in fact ABIs that overalign structure data because it makes for more efficient code. ARM is one of them.
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