On Mar 16, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Alexey Salmin wrote: >>> I am interested in an -mstrict-alignment option for x86. >> >> Not sure it will be useful. The libc still does unaligned accesses IIRC. >> > > Wow. What for?
Well, simply because it is not compiled with strict alignment. There might also be some optimization in memory operation that does unaligned accesses.
