[m-dev.] Why do strings in Mercury need to be word aligned?

[Peter Ross]

Hi,

Why does a MR_String need to be word-aligned?  What code will ever
look at the tag bits of a string and hence do the wrong thing?  I'm
sure that there is code, but I just can't think of what it is.

Pete
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