Re: movmem pattern and missed alignment

[Paul Koning]

> On Oct 8, 2018, at 5:43 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote:
> 
>> That's correct, I was explaining from the middle-end perspective.  There
>> we are consciously more lenient as we have to support the real world and
>> other languages than C.  This is one of the cases.
> 
> This had worked as Paul expects until GCC 4.4 IIRC and this was perfectly OK 
> for every language on strict-alignment platforms.  This was changed only 
> because of SSE on x86.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Botcazou

So does that mean this should be a target-specific behavior, but it isn't at 
the moment?

        paul