Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> I can't remember.  Does CALL really align the stack?
>> Yes, and yes.  The alignment (2 bits) is part of the generated stack
>> frame.
> And, sorry for asking instead of trying to read the documentation,
> this alignment is not done in general for the stack?

Right; it is not.  The VAX is about as misalignment-tolerating as
architectures get; there are extremely few pieces of it where anything
needs any alignment at all.  You can `align' your stack to an odd
address and, in general, all that will happen is you'll pay a bit of a
speed penalty on some implementations.

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