On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:18:08PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > I need to be able to do unaligned memory accesses to memory in > big-endian or little-endian mode. For portability, I'd like to do it > in pure C, but I'd like the compiler to generate optimal sequences for > the operations. Most CPUs that I know of even have special > instructions designed to speed up part or all of these operations. > > So I'm looking for ways of writing these to-be-inlined elemental > functions in C that gcc will recognize as such, while still working > correctly, if more slowly, for other compilers. >
bfd does that. H.J.
