Re: [RS6000] power8 unaligned fp load/store

2016-08-02 Thread Segher Boessenkool
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:07:32AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > According to the POWER8 Processor User’s Manual and some > experimentation on power8 hardware, unaligned fp load/store on power8 > does not invoke the alignment interrupt. Thus SLOW_UNALIGNED_ACCESS > should not return true for these

[RS6000] power8 unaligned fp load/store

2016-08-02 Thread Alan Modra
According to the POWER8 Processor User’s Manual and some experimentation on power8 hardware, unaligned fp load/store on power8 does not invoke the alignment interrupt. Thus SLOW_UNALIGNED_ACCESS should not return true for these accesses. It so happens that we already have an undocumented switch