Re: Untagging by subtraction instead of masking on USE_LSB_TAG

[Miles Bader]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Note that the important value here is the EA, not the offset.  Typically
> in a LSB tag scheme, the tags are arranged so that after adding these
> "funny" offsets, the resulting EA is aligned properly.

BTW, such a method won't work on architectures where offsets are
inherently aligned -- for instance, doesn't the x86 implicitly scale the
offset by the size of the value being loaded?  Does anybody know what is
usually done on such an architecture?

Thanks,

-Miles

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