[fpc-devel] Working on FillWord, FillDWord and FillQWord again

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Excellent, thank you.

Gareth aka. Kit

On 14/05/2021 07:03, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 14 May 2021, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
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>> 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.
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> There should be no limitations on on alignment. These functions can 
> accept
> any address.
>
> Michael.
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