Hi Tom,
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:05:33 -0500, Tom Rini trini@ti.com wrote:
When we tell the compiler to optimize for ARMv7 it assumes a default of unaligned accesses being supported at the hardware level and can make use of this to perform what it deems as an optimization in any case, including allowing for data to become unaligned. We explicitly disallow this hardware feature so we must tell the compiler.
Cc: Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot@aribaud.net Cc: Mans Rullgard mans@mansr.com Signed-off-by: Tom Rini trini@ti.com
NAK -- the discrepancy between the compiler being told to allow native unaligned accesses while at the same time telling the hardware to trap them is conscious and voluntary. It was chosen to help detect unaligned accesses which are rarely necessary and can be explicitly performed by software on a case by case basis.
If and when a specific file requires unaligned access which cannot be made by some other mean than enabling -mno-unaligned-access, then this file should have it added, not the whole of U-Boot.
Amicalement,