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what is memory alignment?

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I read about memory management in the web. I couldn't understand the concept.
This is the article I read :
The term alignment means the tendency of an address pointer value to be a multiple of some power of two. So a pointer with two byte alignment has a zero in the least significant bit.And a pointer with four byte alignemnt has a zero in both the two least significant bits.
I did not understand the idea of putting zeros.
Answered By: mr_egyptian
Expert Since: 01/10/2003
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mr_egyptian has been an Expert for 6 years, during which he has posted 788 comments and answered 257 questions. mr_egyptian is just one of 260 experts in the Operating Systems Development Zone. 1 expert collaborated on this answer, which was graded an "A" by the asker.
 
 
 
 
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