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Re: Optimization/clarity coding : what is gcc able to do for me ?

From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
To: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM
Cc: jlh at gmx dot ch, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:06:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Optimization/clarity coding : what is gcc able to do for me ?
References: <20050115141157.2E7CB964E@nile.gnat.com><41E932E3.9000307@gmx.ch><20050117085950.B1627@synopsys.com>

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:

 Joe> ....  Pointer accesses are atomic on every machine
 Joe> that I know of, though I am not certain that the language
 Joe> standard guarantees this.

They wouldn't be atomic on MIPS if the pointer (the thing itself, not
what it points to) is misaligned, because then it takes two
instructions to fetch or store it.

     paul

References:
- Re: Optimization/clarity coding : what is gcc able to do for me ?
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Optimization/clarity coding : what is gcc able to do for me?
  - From: jlh
- Re: Optimization/clarity coding : what is gcc able to do for me ?
  - From: Joe Buck

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