Re: Expanding a load instruction

[Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>]

fearyourself wrote:

> In the instruction set of my architecture, the offsets of a half-load
> (HImode) have to be multiples of 2. However, if I set up a structure
> in a certain way, the compiler will generate:
> 
> (mem/s/j:HI (plus:DI (reg:DI 134 [ ivtmp.23 ])
>         (const_int 1 [0x1])) [0 <variable>.geno+0 S2 A16])
> 
> As the memory operand for the load.
> 
> Now, one solution I am going to try to fix this is to use
> define_expand and add a move into another register before this load
> and then load from that register (thus removing the offset of 1).
> 
> My question is: Is that how it should be done or is there another solution?

  This looks like what you need:

 -- Macro: STRICT_ALIGNMENT
     Define this macro to be the value 1 if instructions will fail to
     work if given data not on the nominal alignment.  If instructions
     will merely go slower in that case, define this macro as 0.

    cheers,
      DaveK