niklas@appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist) wrote:
> The key is that an odd-aligned bitfield access which causes a page-fault
> makes the page get incorrectly read from 16-bit mem.  Longword align the
> test, or use tstb or tstl, or don't force the page to swap and you'll
> get by just fine.

I seem to recall something from comp.sys.amiga.hardware a moderately
long time ago that certain memory boards had problems with non-4-aligned
access somehow. But my memory may not be accurate about that, nor may
it be relevant.

-Olaf.
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