Dear Aneesh V, In message <4fe8dce7.7090...@ti.com> you wrote: > > > What is the (non-contrived) problem to which allowing mis-aligned > > accesses would be a solution? > > memcpy() when there is a mismatch in the alignment of source and > destination buffers. Let's say the source buffer is 4 byte aligned > but the destination buffer is only 2 byte aligned. I believe relaxed > alignment requirements will help in writing an accelerated memcpy > routine for this case.
If memcpy() has problems with handling such a situation, then clearly memcpy() needs fixing. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "I dislike companies that have a we-are-the-high-priests-of-hardware- so-you'll-like-what-we-give-you attitude. I like commodity markets in which iron-and-silicon hawkers know that they exist to provide fast toys for software types like me to play with..." - Eric S. Raymond _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
