Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

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.

I see that you use Gnus, the same newsreader I use.

When you post a followup, Gnus automatically adds attribution lines,
like the "Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:" line in
this post.  Please leave those lines in place.  It makes it easier to
follow conversations.  (Yes, readers can typically jump to the parent
article, but it's not always easy to do that or to get back to the
current article.)

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