[PATCH] PowerPC: stpcpy optimization for PPC64/POWER7

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Wed Sep 18 17:22:00 GMT 2013


On 09/18/2013 09:52 AM, Steven Munroe wrote:
> With unaligned load/stores we have to worry about crossing page
> boundaries and perhaps a segfault.

No we don't.  The unaligned load/store is for the *last* one only,
when we know exactly where the last byte to be stored is located.

Please re-read the whole thread, not just pick out one word.

> Also I would like the see the scrollpipe trace that backs up you
> assertion.

Huh?


r~



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