Re: Char array alignment for PowerPc changed

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Pinski
> > Andrew Pinski wrote: > I have no idea how your reply is related to my question about the > change in alignment of char arrays between gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.1. It was not really a rely to that part of the question but rather the assertion in general that unaligned access was slower which is not tr

Re: Char array alignment for PowerPc changed

2007-01-16 Thread Michael Eager
Andrew Pinski wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 20:04 -0800, Michael Eager wrote: But unaligned char arrays make strcpy much slower. Actually it depends on the processor unless you are messed up by using -mstrict-align which is a huge hammer for most (if not all) PowerPC processors even though the

Re: Char array alignment for PowerPc changed

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 20:04 -0800, Michael Eager wrote: > But unaligned char arrays make strcpy much slower. Actually it depends on the processor unless you are messed up by using -mstrict-align which is a huge hammer for most (if not all) PowerPC processors even though the few cases which need an