Re: [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses when CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 17:26:17 EST
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> It is possible that -fconserve-stack is still valuable on ARM given that
>> it is also used with -mno-unaligned-access for other things than
>> structure packing on the stack, and therefore its merits can be debated
>> independently from the alignment issue at hand.
>
> The big advantage of -fconserve-stack is that it throttles the inliner
> if the inlining would cause too much stack growth. This is something
> you likely want on ARM too, especially as code gets more and more
> complex.
Is there no way to get that effect without also activating the
aggressive packing?
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Måns Rullgård
mans@xxxxxxxxx
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