mips gcc -O1: Address exception error on store doubleword

Thu Aug 9 15:05:00 GMT 2007

"Alex Gonzalez" <langabe@gmail.com> writes:

> I was under the assumption that the compiler made sure that it doesn't
> store a doubleword that is not aligned on a doubleword boundary. Is
> this a bug in the optimizer?

If the pointers are not correctly aligned for their target type then you
are invoking undefined behaviour.  If the aligment of PVAR is at least
doubleword then the compiler may use doubleword accesses for copying.

Andreas.

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