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At 4:57 PM +0100 10/29/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>>At 3:27 PM +0100 10/29/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>
>>... Can we really
>>>have e.g. odd aligned PMCs on stack? I don't think so. Or am I
>>>still missing something?
>>
>>
>>There was some indication back when this was first implemented that
>>the i386, at least when running windows, could have odd-aligned
>>pointers in stack-allocated data. Nobody was 100% sure, but better
>>safe than not, at least until someone can say definitively that
>>we're being too cautious.
>
>Then lets first test my patch(es) (in a different followup) on all
>plattforms. If i386/Win really fails, we make some #ifdef.
>
>life.pasm gens 270 => 403 is an argument ;-)
Oh, absolutely. Correctness, though, is more important that speed.
(Barely, but still more important :) I'm always loathe to count on
empirical research on computers--the specs are available *somewhere*,
and we should see about digging them up and getting a final answer
one way or another.
--
Dan
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