Re:"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting...
by beagle3 on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @04:12AM
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> Things were padded to 4 byte boundries because the 68000 processor would crash if you read an unaligned 32bit value.
It is actually padded to 2-byte boundaries. The 68000 had an external 16 bit data interface. That's the only thing I would fix about IFF if I redid it today. (And I would add a 64-bit length extension, and a "reserved chunkid" designation, e.g. anything that starts with a '$' must be registered in some central registry)
It is actually padded to 2-byte boundaries. The 68000 had an external 16 bit data interface. That's the only thing I would fix about IFF if I redid it today. (And I would add a 64-bit length extension, and a "reserved chunkid" designation, e.g. anything that starts with a '$' must be registered in some central registry)