A bug in GCC 2.95.2 for SPARC

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  8, 2000, James Cheng <James.Cheng@eng.sun.com> wrote:

> I am reporting a bug in GCC 2.95.2 for SPARC. For the example shown
> below, the compiler is generating an unaligned double store

Yep, this is one of the reasons why GCC 2.95.2 does not fully support
ultrasparc.  Use -mtune=ultrasparc instead of -mcpu=ultrasparc, to get
most of the optimization without enabling the instructions that may
fail.

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