[PATCH][ARM] FAIL: gcc.target/arm/pr58041.c scan-assembler ldrb

[Julian Brown]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:44:17 +0100
Kyrylo Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> The recently added gcc.target/arm/pr58041.c test exposed a bug in the
> backend. When compiling for NEON and with -mno-unaligned-access we
> end up generating the vld1.64 and vst1.64 instructions instead of
> doing the accesses one byte at a time like -mno-unaligned-access
> expects. This patch fixes that by enabling the NEON expander and
> insns that produce these instructions only when unaligned accesses
> are allowed.
> 
> Bootstrapped on arm-linux-gnueabihf. Tested arm-none-eabi on qemu.
> 
> Ok for trunk and 4.8?

I'm not sure if this is right, FWIW -- do the instructions in question
trap if the CPU is set to disallow unaligned accesses? I thought that
control bit only affected ARM core loads & stores, not NEON ones.

Not to say the test case you mention isn't broken anyway, for some
other reason -- but I don't think disabling NEON movmisalign
for !unaligned_access is the right way to fix it.

HTH,

Julian