Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:47:23 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87ed2n1050.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <9534a1cd1364f2127a1951cc85002f29@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:47:28 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7392a70ceafa2370b36a4bd73810300d"; logging-data="1211084"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+JwNZ2HTcCv4tS5zYZkDVV" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Prl61XMBE3uZSr+biLZO1bUTQs4= sha1:t7rPZFQz63oz1wxayCE45Cz3yO4= Bytes: 2138 Stefan Monnier 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. > > 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 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.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */