[PATCH v2 RESEND] Document .Nbyte assembler directives

[Tobin C. Harding]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:04:20PM +0100, Pierre Muller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I am just curious about what I read in your documentation improvement.
> 
>   You state that, for .8byte
> there is a warning if the bignum doesn't fit into an 8 byte integer,
> but there is nothing similar for .2byte and .4byte.

thanks for the query. I will hack up some test code and see if I can
come back to you with an answer.

> 
>   Should I understand that there is no check and no warning for the two
> later?
> Another question I had was about alignment:
> is there any alignment done?
> 
> Our could a .8byte end up unaligned?

I'm not sure I will be able to answer this one though.

> 
> 
> Just curious,

thanks,
Tobin.