Lpc2000

At 11:35 PM 3/30/06 +0000, dsidlauskas1 wrote:
>OK. To the intent.

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>I realize there's enough weasel room in the C99 spec to get the
>compiler writers off the hook, but if their market is moving up from
>the 8 to 32 biter's shouldn't they try harder?

It's more than weasel room it's an intimate and integral part of the 
language and has been for over 20 years. IE it's a PRE-ANSI 
requirement.  All ANSI and ISO did was codify it.  The alignment 
requirements can be far stricter than what the ARM architecture imposes.

Robert

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