http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56997
--- Comment #9 from Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger at hotmail dot de> --- 1. you should never touch memory that lies outside the struct. 2. if you have to generate multiple accesses you should generate code as if "volatile" was not used at all. 3. if -mno-unaligned-access is given you should not use accesses that are larger than the struct's __attribute__((alignment(x))) 4. otherwise if unaligned accesses are allowed, you may generate an unaligned ldr/str instruction. Note: please do not use ldmia/stmia with unaligned addresses, because that does still segfault even in ARMv7. (that may be handled by a Linux IRQ but not for other O/S like eCos)
