Help-Bus Errors

Aryeh M. Weiss aryeh at eddie.mit.edu
Mon Feb 19 04:32:59 AEST 1990


In article <22598 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1990Feb10.192028.16025 at eddie.mit.edu> aryeh at eddie.mit.edu
>(Aryeh M. Weiss) writes:
>>reference an odd address with a word oriented instruction ... on Vaxes
>>and 68000's ....
>
>As someone else already mentioned, VAXen do not care about address
>alignment except for speed (aligned operands are somewhat faster).

Sorry, my mistake.  I was recalling some of this from some old experiences.
Since I have always seen word aligned Vax code and I just assumed ...

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