> Yeah, I noticed that, I could have been pedantic about it but chose to > just describe how these language implementations work in the real > world with zero exceptions that I know of. I guess I should have > spelled it out.
You talked about CPU architectures: """ >And this presumes an architecture which byte-addresses and only >> uses "aligned" addresses. Yes, that would describe just about every cpu for the past 30 years that's a plausible Python target. """ And regarding the "zero exceptions" - I know for sure that quite a few programs were crashing when the transition in 68K from 24 bit addresses to real 32 bit was done on popular systems like the ATARI ST - as some smart-asses back then used the MSByte for additional parameter space. I can't say though if that was only in assembler writen code - quite popular back then even for larger apps - or a compiler optimization. I do presume the former. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list