alt Hacker NewsIn regards to 68000 I don't remember, only used it during demoscene coding parties when allowed to touch Amiga from my friends.
I have only seen PDP-11 Assembly snippets in UNIX related books, wasn't aware of its alignment requirements.
In regards to 68000 I don't remember, only used it during demoscene coding parties when allowed to touch Amiga from my friends.
I have only seen PDP-11 Assembly snippets in UNIX related books, wasn't aware of its alignment requirements.
PDP-11 was a major source of inspiration for m68k architecture designers. The influence can be seen in multiple places, starting from the orthogonal ISA design down to instruction mnemonics.
It is quite likely that not allowing the misaligned access was also influenced by PDP-11.