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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
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According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>So using the same register name to address a halfword gives you the low 
>half of the register, not the high half?
>
>Whereas using the same memory address to address a halfword gives you the 
>high half of the word at that location, not the low half?

For anyone familiar with big-endian addressing, those would both be
obviously correct.

Perhaps this would be a good time to stop digging.
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