Scratch that -- looks like the official definition of "word" in all x86 architectures is 16 bits. This is in spite of the fact that the 80386 and above are 32-bit CPUs, that the registers are 32 bits, and that declaring an "int" in C gets you 32 bits.
This is a holdover from the predecessor 8086 and 80286, which were true 16-bit CPUs. Sorry for the bogus answer. -- Rod On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:38 am, Rod Roark wrote: > On x86 CPUs (well, 80386 and above), a word is 32 bits. > > A "word-aligned" piece of memory is one whose starting > binary address ends in 00 (i.e. is a multiple of 4 bytes). > > Also I thought the x86 unit of paging is 4K, not 8K, but > maybe things have changed since the old 386 days. > > Cheers, _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
