On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:31:15PM +0300, Nikolaos Kavvadias wrote: > My question here is: culdn't "-Os" optimization option force .align 0 > alignment? Is there any way to use the minimal data memory > requirements for global symbols possible?
While it could, I hope that it does not go so far as to make the reads unaligned (on processors that allow this). -Os currently optimizes well for speed as well as for space, and there's a substantial performance penalty for unaligned reads and writes in many cases.
