http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58041
Bug ID: 58041 Summary: Unaligned access to arrays in packed structure Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: middle-end Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: bernd.edlinger at hotmail dot de the attached test case shows unaligned accesses can be generated on arm architecture, despite the -mno-unaligned-access option. This does not happen at -O0 and -Og, but it always happens at at -Os -O1 -O2 and -O3 to name a few. assembler output for foo shows unaligned opcodes: foo: @ Function supports interworking. @ args = 0, pretend = 0, frame = 0 @ frame_needed = 0, uses_anonymous_args = 0 @ link register save eliminated. add ip, r0, r1, asl #3 add r1, ip, #1 ldmia r1, {r0-r1} str r2, [ip, #1] str r3, [ip, #5] bx lr reproduced with latest trunk: $ ../gcc-4.9-20130728/configure --target=arm-eabi --prefix=/home/ed/gnu/arm-eabi --with-newlib --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-hosted-libstdcxx --disable-__cxa_atexit