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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:13:29 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Consolidation of asm/unaligned.h
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To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:20:34 -0800
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:

> You do realize that the compiler knows when the target supports unaligned
> loads, and optimizes the __attribute__((packed)) case appropriately?  I'd
> be surprised if *any* target needed a specialized version (indeed, if so,
> I'd consider this a failing in the compiler).

That's a good point.

Less compilation overhead though for the direct pointer deref defines.