22 Jun
2016
22 Jun
'16
7:32 a.m.
On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Rich Alderson wrote:
Exactly, yes. I was thinking that 60 bits is not divisble by 8. However,
as I said, I'm a total ignoramous about the platform.
- It used odd
sized (by todays standards) register, instruction, and bus
sizes. 60 bit machine with 15/30 bit instructions. But, didn't it cause
a bunch of alignment issues for you ?
??? Alignment issues? Care to define
this? Are you thinking of bytes? The word is [...] ... packed into the 60-bit word.
Where would you see alignment issues?
Well, as you so eloquently explain, as long as the units feeding into the
registers are factors of the register's total size, it's not a problem.
So, it sounds like it wasn't an issue. I didn't know of any actual issue,
I was just curious.
-Swift