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Re: Idioms for byteswapping and unaligned memory access
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:38:00AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:18:08PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > I need to be able to do unaligned memory accesses to memory in
> > big-endian or little-endian mode. For portability, I'd like to do it
> > in pure C, but I'd like the compiler to generate optimal sequences for
> > the operations. Most CPUs that I know of even have special
> > instructions designed to speed up part or all of these operations.
> >
> > So I'm looking for ways of writing these to-be-inlined elemental
> > functions in C that gcc will recognize as such, while still working
> > correctly, if more slowly, for other compilers.
> >
>
> bfd does that.
Have you looked at the code generated for these?
I was able to drastically improve performance of a project I was
working on, on x86, by forcing BFD to do unaligned loads instead of
bytewise loads, but I never found a clean way to do it automatically.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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