Re: Unaligned access trade-offs for SFrame FRE layout

On 14.09.2025 16:39, Rainer Orth wrote:
>> On 12.09.2025 19:34, Indu Bhagat via Binutils wrote:
> look for STRICT_ALIGNMENT in the GCC sources in gcc/config.  While
> several are embedded targets, there's also sparc in that list.
>
> But is this setting a good reference for the purpose here.

It is not a setting usually, also not for you, it is a command-line
option.  Often it is good (for performance) to only do naturally aligned
accesses.  For some (sub-)archs it simply is impossible to even try to
do misaligned accesses OTOH.

> It's okay for gcc to make assumptions (assuming they're properly
> documented),

Only some implementation decisions have to be documented.  And
assumptions are almost never okay.  Typically we depend on the user
promising they do not do X (via a -mno-X flag, say) before we assume
they do not do X.


Segher