Re: Disabling lwl and lwr instruction generation

[Zhang Fuxin <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn>]

Richard Hodges wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:
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>>On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Ranjan Parthasarathy wrote:
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>>>Is there a way to tell gcc to not generate the lwl, lwr instructions?
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>>Gcc will only ever generate these instructions when __attribute__((unaligned))
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>I got lwl and lwr from a memcpy() with two void pointers...
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>I quickly changed those to the (aligned) structure pointers instead, and
>then memcpy() changed to ordinary word loads and stores.
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>So, is somebody starting a toolchain for that new Chinese CPU? :-)
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I don't hear about it,but it will happen soon or later:)

We work around lwl/lwr problem by modifying toolchain from H.J. Lu's rh 
port.

it seems that gcc will explicitly output lwl/lwr for unaligned block 
copy,in other cases it will generate
ulW macros for gas to handle.





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