Re: Use of unaligned load/stores by compilers - or doing things by halves

Tom Moog <tmoog@mcs.net>
25 Jan 1998 12:28:05 -0500

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From: Tom Moog <tmoog@mcs.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 Jan 1998 12:28:05 -0500
Organization: Polhode Inc
References: 98-01-099 98-01-105
Keywords: architecture

The DEC VMS alpha debugger allows you to turn on/off debugger
interception of unaligned operands. Normally, the kernel emulates
them without any warning/complaint resulting in a huge, but invisible,
ineffiency in the code.


Tom Moog
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