movmem pattern and missed alignment
Eric Botcazou
ebotcazou@adacore.com
Tue Oct 9 06:41:00 GMT 2018
> It's not quite obvious what SSE has to do with this - any hint please?
SSE introduced alignment constraints into the non-strict-alignment target x86
so people didn't really want to play by the rules of strict-alignment targets.
> (according to my quick check this changed between gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6)
Possibly indeed, I remembered GCC 4.5 as being the turning point.
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Eric Botcazou
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