Hi everyone, I'm back to working on the x86_64 implementations of FillWord, FillDWord and FillQWord again due to demand from a couple of end users. https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32637 One question I do have though, because the documentation doesn't bring it up... must the functions be able to handle memory that isn't aligned to their respective sizes? That is, should FillWord handle memory that's not aligned to 2 bytes etc? I would be grateful for an answer, because if I'm allowed to assume the memory is at least aligned to the size boundary, I can greatly simplify my assembly language.

On Fri, 14 May 2021, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm back to working on the x86_64 implementations of FillWord, > FillDWord and FillQWord again due to demand from a couple of end users. > > https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32637 > > One question I do have though, because the documentation doesn't > bring it up... must the functions be able to handle memory that isn't > aligned to their respective sizes? That is, should FillWord handle > memory that's not aligned to 2 bytes etc? I would be grateful for an > answer, because if I'm allowed to assume the memory is at least > aligned to the size boundary, I can greatly simplify my assembly > language. There should be no limitations on on alignment. These functions can accept any address. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist  -  https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel