Re: load_unaligned() and "uld" instruction

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Please don't.  Gcc already has means to generate proper unaligned
> accesses.  See include/asm-alpha/unaligned.h for how to achieve them in a
> portable way (i.e. using packed structs) without the problematic inline
> asm.

That's all very nice and guess what - I tried it when I originally wrote
ualigned.h for Linux.  Try building the mentioed Alpha code with and older
compiler like egcs 1.0.3a and take a look at it [1].  23 instructions for
loading a double world - that's just mindboggling.

  Ralf

[1] free barf bag on request.