Re: [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses whenCONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:03:39PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.

Catalin said in his mail "I haven't tried with -mno-unaligned-access, I
suspect the variables on the stack would be aligned.".  So I don't think
we know enough to say whether -mno-unaligned-access avoids the stack
packing.
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