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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:20:34 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: Consolidation of asm/unaligned.h
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:03:16PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  I've just added the following diff
> on top so that the COLDFIRE build uses the new generic
> unaligned header.

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).


r~