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From: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (Alex Amsel)
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Subject: Re: Interesting anomaly
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:55:01 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:12:51 +0100, Majik <majik@127.0.0.1> did quoth
at me:

>Again, I'm not sure if this is compiler trouble or MIPS trouble but
>hey-ho,
>
>if I have a module, that as part of its global data declares something
>like:
>
>unsigned char blk[27];

Although the compiler probably ought to be aligning things, you should
always try to long word align all your structures and arrays.

The above allocates 27 bytes of ram for blk, thus following data or
code is being misaligned and the MIPS processor gets very upset.


Regards, 

Alex Amsel

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