Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 22:47:04 EST


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.

r~

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