On modern CPUs, it used not to be something to care about in the past across 8, 16, 32 bit generations, outside RISC.
PDP-11, m68k – to name a few, did not allow misaligned access to anything that was not a byte.
Neither are RISC nor modern.
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PDP-11, m68k – to name a few, did not allow misaligned access to anything that was not a byte.
Neither are RISC nor modern.