Re: Use of unaligned load/stores by compilers

corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett)
25 Jan 1998 12:25:53 -0500

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From: corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 Jan 1998 12:25:53 -0500
Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
References: 98-01-099
Keywords: architecture

>Fortran lets you use equivalence statements to misalign double precision
>floats, other than that I don't know of any languages where misaligned
>data will happen without extraordinary programmer effort. -John]

There are a few languages that allow users to specify that data is
unaligned. COBOL, PL/I and Ada come to mind.

Sincerely,
Bob Corbett
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