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On Friday 15 October 2010 16:26:17 Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 64-bit values align to 4-byte boundaries on some 32-bit architectures like
> > x86 
> AFAIK it's only on x86, no other architecture made this mistake in their
> 32bit ABI. But of course x86 is kind of important ...

I don't know of any other examples; all the architectures I tried "got it 
right" except x86.

Andreas