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Re: powerpc & unaligned block moves with fp registers
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: powerpc & unaligned block moves with fp registers
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 01 16:09:47 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On some architectures, unaligned 64-bit loads and stores can cause
alignment exceptions trapping to the OS to perform the load in pieces.
I think STRICT_ALIGNMENT should be true on such architectures.