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Re: What happened to the -funaligned-pointers option?
- To: "EGALITE,ERIC (HP-Boise,ex1)" <eric_egalite at am dot exch dot hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: What happened to the -funaligned-pointers option?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:38:28 -0600
- cc: "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <2FABBD0C77DAD211971F00A0C9DEFC3303AF159C@xboi04.boi.hp.com>you wr
ite:
>
> I recently upgraded from "gcc version cygnus-2.7.2-960126" to "gcc version
> 2.95 1990728 (release)."
>
> Version 2.7 supported an option (-funaligned-pointers) that allowed
> dereferencing unaligned pointers, but version 2.95 regards this as an
> invalid option. How can I use unaligned pointers with version 2.95?
Only Cygnus releases have ever had the -funaligned-pointers hack. Cygnus has
never cleaned up the code and contributed it back to the official gcc
distributions.
jeff