atomic accesses
Paul Brook
paul@codesourcery.com
Tue Mar 4 22:50:00 GMT 2008
> AFAIK the only reason we don't break this rule is that doing so would
> be grossly inefficient; there's nothing to stop any gcc back-end with
> (say) seriously slow DImode writes from using two SImode writes instead.
I'm fairly sure ARM already breaks this "rule".
Currently it probably only effects postincrement addressing modes. However
there is definite scope for splitting loads/stores (even SI->2*HI) when
optimizing for size.
Paul
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