So, the arm memcpy code of aligned data isn’t as good as it can be. void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, unsigned int n);
void foo(char *dst, int i) { memcpy (dst, &i, sizeof (i)); } generates horrible code, but, it we are willing to notice the src or the destination are aligned, we can do much better: $ ./cc1 -fschedule-fusion -fdump-tree-all-all -da -march=armv7ve -mcpu=cortex-m4 -fomit-frame-pointer -quiet -O2 /tmp/t.c -o t.s $ cat t.s [ … ] foo: @ args = 0, pretend = 0, frame = 4 @ frame_needed = 0, uses_anonymous_args = 0 @ link register save eliminated. sub sp, sp, #4 str r1, [r0] @ unaligned add sp, sp, #4 Index: gcc/config/arm/arm.c =================================================================== --- gcc/config/arm/arm.c (revision 223842) +++ gcc/config/arm/arm.c (working copy) @@ -14376,7 +14376,10 @@ arm_block_move_unaligned_straight (rtx d srcoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD - src_autoinc); mem = adjust_automodify_address (srcbase, SImode, addr, srcoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD); - emit_insn (gen_unaligned_loadsi (regs[j], mem)); + if (src_aligned) + emit_move_insn (regs[j], mem); + else + emit_insn (gen_unaligned_loadsi (regs[j], mem)); } srcoffset += words * UNITS_PER_WORD; } @@ -14395,7 +14398,10 @@ arm_block_move_unaligned_straight (rtx d dstoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD - dst_autoinc); mem = adjust_automodify_address (dstbase, SImode, addr, dstoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD); - emit_insn (gen_unaligned_storesi (mem, regs[j])); + if (dst_aligned) + emit_move_insn (mem, regs[j]); + else + emit_insn (gen_unaligned_storesi (mem, regs[j])); } dstoffset += words * UNITS_PER_WORD; } Ok? Can someone spin this through an arm test suite run for me, I was doing this by inspection and cross compile on a system with no arm bits. Bonus points if you can check it in with the test case above marked up as appropriate.
Index: gcc/config/arm/arm.c =================================================================== --- gcc/config/arm/arm.c (revision 223842) +++ gcc/config/arm/arm.c (working copy) @@ -14376,7 +14376,10 @@ arm_block_move_unaligned_straight (rtx d srcoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD - src_autoinc); mem = adjust_automodify_address (srcbase, SImode, addr, srcoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD); - emit_insn (gen_unaligned_loadsi (regs[j], mem)); + if (src_aligned) + emit_move_insn (regs[j], mem); + else + emit_insn (gen_unaligned_loadsi (regs[j], mem)); } srcoffset += words * UNITS_PER_WORD; } @@ -14395,7 +14398,10 @@ arm_block_move_unaligned_straight (rtx d dstoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD - dst_autoinc); mem = adjust_automodify_address (dstbase, SImode, addr, dstoffset + j * UNITS_PER_WORD); - emit_insn (gen_unaligned_storesi (mem, regs[j])); + if (dst_aligned) + emit_move_insn (mem, regs[j]); + else + emit_insn (gen_unaligned_storesi (mem, regs[j])); } dstoffset += words * UNITS_PER_WORD; }