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From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: Yaro Pollak <yarop@altair-semi.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unaligned access to packed structs on ppc405
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601291716.k0THGPD31684@makai.watson.ibm.com> (raw)

>>>>> Yaro Pollak writes:

> I am cross-compiling on GCC 3.4.1 for the PowerPC 405, which can handle 
> unaligned accesses in hardware.
> Whenever I am accessing members of a packed bit-struct by pointer, the 
> compiler produces byte accesses, instead of 4-byte acceses.
> I've tried to use |-mstrict-align but to no avail.

	What does "|-mstrict-align" mean?  -mstrict-align means "do not
assume that unaligned accesses are handled by the system."  You are
requesting that the compiler assume the target requires strict alignment
and then questioning why it is accessing a packed bit-struct assuming the
least alignment.

David

             reply	other threads:[~2006-01-29 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-29 17:16 David Edelsohn [this message]
2006-01-30 12:03 ` Yaro Pollak
2006-02-02 16:13   ` David Edelsohn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-05 18:35 John Yates
2006-02-05 21:02 ` David Edelsohn
2006-02-06 10:18   ` Yaro Pollak
2006-02-01 12:03 [Re: Unaligned access to packed structs on ppc405] Yaro Pollak
2006-02-04  4:25 ` Unaligned access to packed structs on ppc405 David Edelsohn
2006-01-30 16:18 Matthew Jones
2006-01-30 16:26 ` Yaro Pollak
2006-01-29 10:00 Yaro Pollak

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