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Only after BWX landed - before that, you had to ensure all accesses were 4 or 8 bytes, and aligned on 4 byte boundary, then do appropriate bitmasking and shifti
by p_l 5y ago
Only after BWX landed - before that, you had to ensure all accesses were 4 or 8 bytes, and aligned on 4 byte boundary, then do appropriate bitmasking and shifting.
- h2odragon 5y agoright. it was a noticeable pain point in early versions so they fixed good and hard for the last few.