[LCP]Data alignment

[Igor]

In such a case CPU needs TWO consecuteive reads to read two bytes
instead of ONE
Igor

Priya wrote:

> This is more of a conceptual question.
> We know that multibyte data must be aligned on a
> natural boundary.That is four byte dta on a four byte
> boundary and two byte data on two byte boundary and so
> forth.But what is the reason behind this.CAn anyone
> please explain.What will be the problem if the data is
> not aligned???
>
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