Lpc2000

Hi, 

> The exampe I've presented is just a toy problem. The real 
> case is porting a lot of old Z80 code where such constructs 
> work just fine because everything is byte aligned. 

Are you just lucky, too, that the byte order of multi-byte items works?
;-)  If you were porting from, say, a 68HC11 then you'd be royally
screwed with byte order and packing problems.

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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd   http://www.rowley.co.uk 
CrossWorks for ARM, MSP430, AVR, MAXQ, and now Cortex-M3 processors