Sujet : Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses
De : monnier (at) *nospam* iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 03. Dec 2024, 17:51:46
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another way to steal bits is over alignment.
Yup. I keep lamenting that Alpha didn't go for bit-addressed memory,
which would have given us 3 extra free bits from alignment (as well as
allowing pointers to bits and bitfields).
Stefan