Data structure alignment: Difference between revisions

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and [[PowerPC]] for [[NEC]] and [[IBM]]. Since the software was not written with such restrictions

in mind, designers had to set a bit in the O/S to enable non-aligned data.

However since this bit was masked with other flags which were used elsewhere, it was impossible to

keep the O/S in a state from faulting on non-aligned data. Both platforms ulimately

failed as platforms for hosting Windows applications. This small detail may be

one reason for the continued dominance of the x86 architecture over rivals.

==Typical aligment of C structs on x86==