[poky] Bad ARM code with GCC 4.7.1

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
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>> hmmm that should be able to handle alignment faults in hardware
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> As far as I know, most armv7a handle alignment in the kernel, but there are
> newer crops of CPUs coming out that will no longer have alignment handlers
> as a "speed optimization".. (I think they're a bit nuts myself, but anyway.)

thats a different thing. I was talking about unaligned accesses are taken care
by hardware not kernel.

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> But if the code in question is inside the kernel, then the alignment faults
> won't work -- or will they?  (Certainly won't from within the alignment
> handlers of course...)