https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88462
--- Comment #9 from ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE> --- > --- Comment #8 from Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject dot org> --- >> Trying to load 32 bits from a non-4 byte aligned pointer is a no-no on a >> strict-alignment target like sparc... > > I saw that on HPPA as well when testing under QEMU. > > ModuleInfo is a variably-sized packed struct - what is in the variable part is > determined by the value of _flags. > > This is compiler generated, so I'll have a look into giving it proper > alignment > on the compiler side. An alternative might be to leave the on-disk representation as is and only handle alignment on input/startup. However, that's probably a bad tradeoff of some on-disk space savings vs. the runtime cost at every startup.
