EPTRACE Manual

Glossary
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word
word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory that corresponds to the width of registers
and to the most common and efficient size of memory operations. A TNS word is
2 bytes (16 bits) wide, beginning on any 2-byte boundary in memory. An Intel®
Itanium® word is also 4 bytes (32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in
memory.