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    How are the words and halfwords of the memory defined?


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    The ARM processor directly supports data types of 8-bit bytes, 16-bit half-words, or 32-bit words.Among them, four consecutive bytes starting from an address divisible by 4 constitute one word, and the data type of the word is four consecutive bytes.The consecutive 2 bytes starting from the even address form a halfword, and the data type of the halfword is 2 consecutive bytes.


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