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Subject: Re: load_unaligned() and "uld" instruction
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  I vote for dual code for now and then we may remove the egcs 1.0.3
> compatibility cruft one day (for 2.6, for example). 

Not much point in that - we end up with performancewise identical code for
both C and assembler variants with current compilers.  So whenever we
finally retire egcs 1.0.3 I think we should switch completly to the
new compiler and the C written unaligned.h.

  Ralf