difference between aligned and unaligned acceses

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Thu Jul 5 14:46:00 GMT 2007


ranjith kumar <ranjit_kumar_b4u@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> how does rtl differentiate between aligned
> acces(movdqa) and unaligned acces(movdqu)???

In RTL every MEM has the associated alignment in MEM_ALIGN.  The i386
backend uses that when expanding a vector move to choose which
instruction to emit.

Ian



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