On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:07:27PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

That means GCC cannot compile Linux; it already optimises
some accesses to scalars to smaller accesses when it knows
it is allowed to.  Not often though, since it hardly ever
helps in the cost model it employs.

Please give an example code snippet + gcc version + arch
to back this up.

Thanks,
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