[Oberon] FPGA - LONG WORD memory access

[Jörg]

Tomas
ProjectOberon is little endian
Jörg

> Am 27.04.2017 um 15:26 schrieb Tomas Kral <thomas.kral at email.cz>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just reading the chapter. Perhaps I should have asked about memory byte
> order, if it is BIG o LITTLE endian.
> 
> I was surprised to see this memory block 
> $0808 FFFF,
> 
> Read in a SET variable as, $FFFF 0808.
> 
> Tomas
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 21:46:29 +0930
> Chris Burrows <chris at cfbsoftware.com> wrote:
> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
>>> Tomas Kral
>>> Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2017 6:34 PM
>>> To: Oberon@
>>> Subject: [Oberon] FPGA - LONG WORD memory access
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is allowed to address 4byte integers on odd memory address, or does
>>> it have to be on even boundaries only, aligned on MOD 4?
>>> 
>>> I remember from other platforms, namely 68K, words or longs on even
>>> address only.
>>> 
>> 
>> Your question is answered in Section 17.1 "The SRAM memory" of the
>> project Oberon documentation i.e:
>> 
>> "The selection of the byte affected is determined by address bits 0
>> an 1 (which are ignored in the case of word-access)."
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Chris Burrows
>> CFB Software
>> http://www.astrobe.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
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