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Re: Problem in hfa_element_mode for IA64
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: fw at deneb dot enyo dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 02 17:50:47 EST
- Subject: Re: Problem in hfa_element_mode for IA64
> Suppose we have an array of two chars with alignment of two bytes.
> Shouldn't it be HImode?
Wouldn't this mean that two consecutive writes to both characters are
combined into a single halfword write?
I suppose it's related to that, but the major effect is that the array, as a
whole, could live in a register.