pointer alignment on a Vax 780

shekita at crystal.UUCP shekita at crystal.UUCP
Tue Jun 25 04:22:26 AEST 1985


Are there any alignment constraints on the Vax 780?
Could one, for example, set an integer pointer to
the middle of a machine word? 

If there aren't alignment constraints, is it faster
to compare two word-aligned integers?



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