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Re: Problem with packed bitfields on ARM


Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> > In litte-endian mode, gcc-3.0.3 built for ARM makes an unaligned access to a
> > bitfield in a packed structure in fp-bit.c:unpack_d.
> > FLOAT_BIT_ORDER_MISMATCH is defined in this case.  This happens with
> > -O2 or without. How can this be fixed in a general way?
> 
> I think you need to compile your code with -malignment-traps

Be careful not to use the similarly named -malignant-traps option;
I've seen more than one programmer loose a foot that way :-)
- Dan

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