-misalign option for sparc

["Einar Th. Einarsson" <einarth at f-prot dot com>]

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Hi.

Are there any plans to include an option to allow misaligned memory 
read/writes for the sparc processor type, similar to the Sun compiler's 
- -misalign option ? (mips could use this too IIRC). 

I found 2 postings on the list requesting this feature but no informative 
answers:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-09/msg00728.html 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-05/msg01897.html

what this option should do (in it's most simple, basic and brute-force form) 
would be to force all read/writes to be byte read/writes and generate code to 
mask/shift as needed for the desired data type.

This also relates to other postings I've seen on the list, where structs are 
created out of raw data from files fail to work because of misaligned 
members. 

In any case, I'd like to add my vote in request this feature  ;)

cheers.

- -- 
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

Yours etc.
    Einar Th.
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