Re: Testsuite failures on sparc64 due to unaligned access since 1.5.0

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Hi!

On 12/11/20 3:41 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> From my discussions with GCC developers I have learnt that it shouldn't
>> be a problem to use memcpy() in such cases to avoid aliasing problems
>> resulting in unaligned access.
>>
>> GCC will just optimize memcpy() in cases where an unaligned access is
>> faster.

I meant "optimize memcpy() out", sorry.

> It's just restoring the historical behavior, and Rob was just saying
> this was a change in dtc and not libfdt, so should be fine.  I sent out
> v3 last night, but I don't see it in the archives yet, if I sent it to
> you directly would you be able to give it a quick spin?  Thanks!

Sure, no problem. Will do.

Adrian

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