> Meh. Badly written code on antique hardware. > I realise this sounds harsh, but in all seriousness if you take a bit of care
Yes, I think it does sound harsh, considering that, I believe, at least as many chips are sold with ARM7TDMI core as the nice fat chips with MMU, caches, 64 and 128 bit buses. > (and common sense) you should get the alignment for free in pretty much all > cases, and it can make a huge difference on ARMv5te cores. > If you're being really pedantic then old-abi targets tend to pad all > structures to a word boundary. I'd expect this to have much more > detrimental overall effect than alignment of doubleword quantities, > which in my experience are pretty rare to start with. Well, I have to agree with the above. Zoltan
