> It's not quite obvious what SSE has to do with this - any hint please?
SSE introduced alignment constraints into the non-strict-alignment target x86 so people didn't really want to play by the rules of strict-alignment targets. > (according to my quick check this changed between gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6) Possibly indeed, I remembered GCC 4.5 as being the turning point. -- Eric Botcazou
