On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:20:34 -0800
Richard Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You do realize that the compiler knows when the target supports unaligned
> loads, and optimizes the __attribute__((packed)) case appropriately?  I'd
> be surprised if *any* target needed a specialized version (indeed, if so,
> I'd consider this a failing in the compiler).

That's a good point.

Less compilation overhead though for the direct pointer deref defines.

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