[PATCH] align.c

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:42:39PM +0200, Stef Simoens wrote:
>
> Kumar Gala wrote:
> >Do you really see string ops and alignment exceptions?  I was under the
> >impression they did byte accesses.
>
> Yes, but i've only seen alignment exceptions with stswi/lswi
> instructions though.
>
> (On the MPC601, stswi/lswi has better timings than a series of stw/lwz;
> that's why I'm probably the only one seeing them...)
>
> While I was at it, Paulus asked me to handle stmw/lmw and stswx/lswx as
> well...

Personnaly I disagree for stmw/lmw, they are specified to
work only for word-aligned addresses.

	Regards,
	Gabriel (back form holidays, so the delay)


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