RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?

[Herman Rubin]

In article <S_O1_F6xds13 at ficc.uu.net>, peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Use structs internally.
> 
> Provide functions to read and write each structure, that do the needed
> conversions. Never touch the external format internally.

			[Example deleted.]

This is another situation where the procedure is extremely slow in software.
If the appropriate hardware were provided, this would not be a problem.  But
would the machine then be RISC?
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
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