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

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Fri Mar 18 08:51:20 EDT 2022


Jon Schneider  <jon at jschneider.tenreversed> wrote:
>More a case that x86 has always allowed any old alignment though it's 
>expensive.

Remember the x86 has grown by accretion.  There are a lot of aspects of the
architecture which are consequences of that.
--scott

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