Re: bits and bytes, Keeping other stuff with addresses

Seems like an odd place to put what are in practice just flag bits.

It's a very natural one, tho.

I don't see why.

The next sentence after the one you cited explained my reasoning.

We agree that nobody expects bit addressing to work, so in fact those
are flag bits.

In practice, yes.

You can use them to point at bits if you want but there's no
architectural or practical reason to do so.

Indeed, which is why we could use them for tag bits.


        Stefan