RISC Machine Data Structure Word Alignment Problems?

[Peter da Silva]

> I guess all the world's not a Vax any more, now it's a 68020.

Worse, since non-word-aligned values do cost extra cycles to access, any
68020 C compiler that didn't pad that structure is broken. Some "features"
of CISC processors are just too expensive to use.
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