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Depends on the assembly, but even most (all?) RISC instruction sets know about words (and probably half-words too) in addition to bytes.

• pjmlp 2y ago
  Pairs, quads and octects of bytes.
  • eru 2y ago
    There's also vector instructions.
    • pjmlp 2y ago
      Operating on stream of bytes, defined by registers.
      • eru 2y ago
        The context was this comment: > Depends on the assembly, but even most (all?) RISC instruction sets know about words (and probably half-words too) in addition to bytes. Of course, you could define words and half-words in terms of bytes, too. Just as you can do with vectors. And many vector instructions operate more on eg streams of words than streams of bytes.
        • pjmlp 2y ago
          Nope, the context was: "The types that C knows about are the types that the assembly knows about."