http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52415
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jakub at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #4 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-02-28 12:29:14 UTC --- But to answer your question, how you can assert it is properly aligned, in gcc 4.7.0 you can write: __builtin_memcpy (&i, __builtin_assume_aligned (p, sizeof *p), sizeof i); which will assert that p is sizeof (float) bytes aligned and then you get code without the stack frame. Or you can use a union instead of memcpy: union U { float f; int i; } u; u.f = *p; return u.i;