Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 15:32:58 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:

Yes, but contrary to the case for bytes, there is virtually (literally?)
no code out there which expects non-byte-aligned memory accesses
to work.

FORTRAN COMMON blocks require misaligned accesses to double precision
data.

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I don't think FORTRAN stipulate this also applies to sub-byte alignment.

FORTRAN (of that era) only had words and then went on to describe
double precision FP to take 2 of those words without specifying
any additional alignment criteria.
Later Fortrans (from FORTRAN 77, WATfor, and WATfiv) we have Character*1

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        Stefan