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How do you work out the alignment of an address by just looking at it?
On a 32bit system, an address of 0x12345670 means it’s 16 byte aligned (because of the 0 on the end) right?
So what about:
0x12345671
0x12345672
0x12345673
etc?
Cheers,
Jon
An address A is n-aligned if A mod n is 0. So 0x12345671 and 0x12345673 are 1 aligned, and 0x12345672 is 2-aligned. 0x12345670 is, simultaneously, 1-aligned, 2-aligned, 4-aligned, 8-aligned, and 16-aligned. You only mention the highest power of two (as the lower powers are implied).