[vox-tech] lame question on memory allocation

[Rod Roark]

Scratch that -- looks like the official definition of "word"
in all x86 architectures is 16 bits.  This is in spite of
the fact that the 80386 and above are 32-bit CPUs, that the
registers are 32 bits, and that declaring an "int" in C gets
you 32 bits.

This is a holdover from the predecessor 8086 and 80286,
which were true 16-bit CPUs.

Sorry for the bogus answer.

-- Rod

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:38 am, Rod Roark wrote:
> On x86 CPUs (well, 80386 and above), a word is 32 bits.
>
> A "word-aligned" piece of memory is one whose starting
> binary address ends in 00 (i.e. is a multiple of 4 bytes).
>
> Also I thought the x86 unit of paging is 4K, not 8K, but
> maybe things have changed since the old 386 days.
>
> Cheers,