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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is handling off-alignment important?
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.212255.3555@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 21:22:55 GMT

In article <MCGRATH.90Aug7220232@homer.Berkeley.EDU> mcgrath@homer.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes:
>On machines that "don't handle misaligned accesses", what do they do when one
>happens anyway?...

Mostly they trap.  There are probably one or two design groups that were
foolish enough to just ignore the low bits.
-- 
The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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