[Info-vax] x86-64 data aligment / faulting

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-02-27 kl. 21:16, skrev gah4:
> On Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 6:43:41 AM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> When the Alpha first came out its attackers used to provide
>> example code that performed very badly to prove they were
>> better. Wasn't this one of the methods used to write those
>> really bad performing programs? This and forcing repeated
>> dumping of the pipelined instructions?
> 
> As well as I remember it, Alpha only has 32 bit and 64 bit aligned
> load/store instructions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha#Byte-Word_Extensions_(BWX)