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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:45:56PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > 	PMAP_ALIGN	_arg_ is a byte alignment specification (currently
> > 			restricted to a power of two?  Do any weird byte-
> > 			size architectures (still) exist?).
> 
> Byte size wouldn't matter, and getting anything unix-like to run
> on an old ICL System25 (with decimal addresses up to 10000 and
> binary pages above) is not going to happen.

However, a porting effort to a 36bit architecture is ongoing, but I believe
it is faking 9-bit-bytes to the compiler and possibly to the VM system.

Regards,
	-is
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