[Oberon] Why is RSC string data word-aligned?

Paul Reed paulreed at paddedcell.com
Sun Jan 31 16:13:57 CET 2021


On 2021-01-31 10:11, Andreas Pirklbauer wrote:
> Isn’t any data - including string data . already word-aligned in the
> compiler (and therefore also in the .rsc file)?
...
>     - All type descriptors are word-aligned (see ORG.BuildTD)
...
>     - All strings are word-aligned (see ORG.MakeStringItem)

Right, there are sections which *would* be (file) word-aligned, if other 
previous sections weren't variable (byte) length.

Cheers,
Paul


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