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   Tristan Wibberley to Anton Ertl   
   Re: push for memory safe languages -- im   
   05 Mar 24 07:58:20   
   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 05/03/2024 06:35, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > Tristan Wibberley    
   writes:   
      
   ...   
      
   >> If so, plenty of computers have alignment   
   >> requirements,   
   >   
   > In general-purpose computers, that used to be the case in the 1990s,   
   > but nowadays it is no longer the case.  We have to use really old   
   > hardware to test against alignment errors. ...   
      
   Or special purpose computers that are not mass marketed, but I wasn't   
   aware they'd fixed all the public market computers. Thanks for the info.   
      
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