The importance of alignment on a VAX

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

> For those who think that aligment is not important on a VAX I suggest your
> actually trying a code without alignment before makeing any claims that it
> is not important.  The very simple example
> 
You're twisting what I was saying.  What I was complaining about was that
there was no feature for defeating it even on machines like the VAX where
the hardware will support it easily.  It would be nice to read structures
from other machines (like PDP-11's) sometime.

-Ron