RE: [PATCH 0/7] Add support to handle misaligned accesses in S-mode

[David Laight]

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> Saying that you support misaligned access does not mean that they are
> going to be efficient, just that they are supported (in fact, the uABI
> state that they may perform poorly). The compiler is actually not so
> stupid and will try to do as much aligned access as possible in what it
> generates (unless forced by some assembly, cast or whatever that can
> screw up alignment accesses). This is already the case and it will most
> probably not change.

I did a quick check.

https://godbolt.org/z/j3e9drv4e

The code generated by both clang and gcc for misaligned reads is horrid.
Gcc does a better job if the alignment is known but generates much
the same as the clang code when it isn't.

The C code is much shorter.
Even though both gcc and clang add a (different) instruction to it

	David

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