*more* alignment problems

[Michael Meissner]

On Mon, Mar 30, 1970 at 04:26:33PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     Because all of those bitfield functions were manipulating alignment in
>     bytes, the SLOW_UNALIGNED_ACCESS macro expects the alignment to be
>     bytes.  The primary question for SLOW_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is whether the
>     alignment is less than the natural alignment for the type, usually in
>     granularity of bytes, not bits.
> 
> Why does it matter which way it's defined?  I changed the macro in
> rs6000.h to accept bits.

As long as the macro in question will never need to deal with anything that is
larger than 1/8 of the address space.

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