Question on Alignment requiremnet

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 02:20:00 EDT 2011


Hi Subin...

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 02:01, subin gangadharan
<subingangadharan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply.I have one more question.
>  So in case of processor with read/write granularity of 4 byte access,just
> for understanding purpose imagine it's with out cache.So in that case any
> difference is there between 4byte and other 8byte,16 byte alignment.

Sorry, I have no idea about that so far...

PS: the best I can think beside data bus alignment, cache
alignment...is probably page alignment.

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Mulyadi Santosa
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