On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 23:19:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:There is no conceivable case where alignment will be > 32 bits, nor not being a power of 2.Are you talking about hardware alignment or programmer specified alignment?
When I come to think of it, there probably are some DSPs with 3 byte alignment -> 24 bit load/store. When loaded into a register the upper 8 bits are fixed to zero.
