DN> On some platforms (not intel), the option of accessing data at other than 
DN> alignment boundaries of a size determined by the machine is not available. 

Could you tell me the name of one such machine?  On IBM S/370
machines it just makes it slower, so I don't have any real
life examples of it being not allowed at all, although I don't
doubt that there are.  BFN.  Paul.
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