On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 05:09:58PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote: > I guess we *could* assume that all the extra pXd_offset() calls and > also the de-referencing would be optimized out by the compiler for other > archs, but it is one example where my gut tells me that this might not > be so trivial and w/o unwanted effects after all. Assigning to a variable that is never read should be eliminated.. If things are very complex then the pXX_offset function might need to be marked with attribute pure, but I think this should be reliable? Jason