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S.emmerson (talk | contribs) m Modified the padding and alignment shortcut to indicate that either the offset must be unsigned or the system must use two's complement arithmetic (doesn't work for one's complement or sign-magnitude) |
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==Definitions==
A memory address ''a'' is said to be ''n-[[byte]] aligned'' when ''a'' is a multiple of ''n''
The alternate wording ''b-bit aligned'' designates a ''b/8 byte aligned'' address (ex. [[64-bit]] aligned is 8 bytes aligned).
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