From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Vickers <jvickers@e-14.com>
To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: ridiculous amounts of padding
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:00 -0000
Message-id: <369DE37E.5E3453A0@acorn.com>
References: <199901140133.BAA04139@phal.cygnus.co.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1999-01n/msg00520.html

Joern Rennecke wrote:
> 
> > Even a one-char string copy could be faster done as a word-move on some
> > platforms.
> 
> But you may not do that unless you know that you may access the extra data.
> So the applicability of that optimization seems to be pretty low.

If we've got a one-byte string with 4-byte alignment,   the last two
bytes
in the 4-byte word are unlikely to fall off the end of a memory chip,
or or to lie in a different memory protection region :-).

Or are you thinking of segment limit registers (Ugh) ?