riscv: configure.ac bug fix for misaligned access when __riscv_misaligned_slow
Gedare Bloom
gedare@rtems.org
Fri May 1 05:28:59 GMT 2026
memcmp is generating data alignment errors on risc-v targets where the
hw does not allow unaligned access. This behavior was observed on
microchip polarfire with rtems. Here is the code generated:
000000008000bb34 <memcmp>:
8000bb34: 469d li a3,7
8000bb36: 00c6fb63 bgeu a3,a2,8000bb4c <memcmp+0x18>
8000bb3a: 6118 ld a4,0(a0)
8000bb3c: 619c ld a5,0(a1)
You can see that 8000bb3a will cause a fault if a0 is not aligned and
hw does not support it.
riscv-rtems7-gcc -dM -E - < /dev/null | grep aligned
#define __riscv_misaligned_slow 1
Attached fix corrects this. Generated code is now:
00000008000baf6 <memcmp>:
8000baf6: 469d li a3,7
8000baf8: 04c6f063 bgeu a3,a2,8000bb38 <memcmp+0x42>
8000bafc: 00a5e7b3 or a5,a1,a0
8000bb00: 8b9d andi a5,a5,7
8000bb02: c395 beqz a5,8000bb26 <memcmp+0x30>
8000bb04: 167d addi a2,a2,-1
8000bb06: 0605 addi a2,a2,1
8000bb08: 962a add a2,a2,a0
8000bb0a: a019 j 8000bb10 <memcmp+0x1a>
Now we have the check at 8000bb02 that will handle alignment and
falls-thru to byte-by-byte copy, or jumps to aligned long copies.
Gedare
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