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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses
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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