[Bug c/87581] Misaligned 16-bit read trap on x86 platform should be either fixed or documented.

[jakub at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87581

--- Comment #9 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to David Svoboda from comment #8)
> A clarification:
> The SSE2 instructions are not new. (20 years old)
> Their use by the optimizer is (relatively) new. (between 4.8.5 and 4.9.4
> from my testing).

Maybe for a specific testcase, the vectorizer is being constantly improved.
For many other testcases you'll find that it changed already in various
releases starting with 4.0 (when the vectorizer has been added). 4.0 is just 13
years ago, still it is nothing I'd call recently.