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Re: movmem pattern and missed alignment
> On Oct 8, 2018, at 5:43 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>
>> That's correct, I was explaining from the middle-end perspective. There
>> we are consciously more lenient as we have to support the real world and
>> other languages than C. This is one of the cases.
>
> This had worked as Paul expects until GCC 4.4 IIRC and this was perfectly OK
> for every language on strict-alignment platforms. This was changed only
> because of SSE on x86.
>
> --
> Eric Botcazou
So does that mean this should be a target-specific behavior, but it isn't at the moment?
paul