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Timeline for Byte addressing and alignment

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May 16, 2024 at 9:26 history edited gnasher729 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 16, 2024 at 8:38 comment added gnasher729 A Single byte is always contained completely in one 32 bit aligned word. So there is no problem.
Apr 16, 2024 at 7:52 comment added Slaycapь I'm not asking about reading an unaligned word, I'm asking about how the CPU uses byte addressing (that is, how the CPU reads a single byte), having, say, 32-bit registers and a 32-bit data bus, while referring only to aligned addresses.
Apr 16, 2024 at 7:40 history answered gnasher729 CC BY-SA 4.0