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Re: [RFA:] Caveat for ARM in gcc-4.7/changes.html: unaligned accesses
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>
- To: michael dot hope at linaro dot org
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:53:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA:] Caveat for ARM in gcc-4.7/changes.html: unaligned accesses
> From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:29:04 +0200
> > From: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 05:50:52 +0200
> > The combination of
> > older Linux ARM kernels and GCC 4.7 gives a faulty kernel.
>
> We're in agreement!
Oh wait sorry, my bad, I misread. Instead of "gives a faulty
kernel", I'd say "for ARMv6 and later (not -M), gives faulty
user-space code". Maybe the kernel too, I can't say; there was
IIRC no sign of it.
brgds, H-P