On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK, how about the following?
Ugh. Disgusting.
Why the heck isn't it just "sizeof(*__vp) <= sizeof(long)"?
If the architecture has a 3-byte scalar type, then it probably has a
3-byte load.
> It complains if the variable is too large, for example, long long on
> 32-bit systems or large structures. It is OK loading from and storing
> to small structures as well, which I am having a hard time thinking of
> as a disadvantage.
.. but that's *exactly* the gcc bug in question. It's a word-sized
struct that gcc loads twice.
Linus
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