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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:26:00 -0000
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>,
        Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com>,
        Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>, gcc@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: memcpy to an unaligned address
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:15:05PM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I'm not sure I understood the last line. s is a structure, and its
> address is aligned. How would you pass it to memcpy, and why would it
> generate an unaligned copy?

In the example I was replying to, S is a pointer to a structure,
and it wasn't aligned.


r~