Re: target/7462: [powerpc] Bad code for unalign access

The following reply was made to PR target/7462; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dara Hazeghi <[email protected]>
To: Hans-Joachim Widmaier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: target/7462: [powerpc] Bad code for unalign access
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:54:37 -0700 (PDT)

 --- Hans-Joachim Widmaier <[email protected]>
 wrote:
 > Dara Hazeghi:
 > >
 >
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-
 > 
 > > trail&database=gcc&pr=7462
 > > 
 > > Hello,
 > > 
 > > gcc 3.1.1 is a bit old, and a fair bit has changed
 > since then. Would it  
 > > be possible for you to check whether this problem
 > is still present with  
 > > gcc 3.3? Thanks,
 > 
 > Hello,
 > 
 > a quick test showed that gcc 3.3 indeed seems to do
 > that right. So that
 > bug can be closed. Alas, it creates new sections
 > which our link script doesn't
 > cater for, and a rebuild of the whole project raised
 > an internal compiler error.
 > Since I'm a bit tight on time, I will defer
 > investigating that further and
 > revert to gcc 3.2.2.
 
 Sorry to see that 3.3 brings new bugs! When you get a
 chance, please report the new problem you've found.
 Meanwhile we'll close this bug.
 
 Dara
 
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