With a dereferenced type-cast pointer as memory operand, gcc 4.6
and later will sometimes copy the data to a temporary location,
the address of which is used as the operand value, if it thinks
the target address might be misaligned. Using a pointer to a
packed struct type instead does the right thing.
The 16-bit case is special since the ldrh instruction addressing
modes are limited compared to ldr. The "Uq" constraint produces a
memory reference suitable for an ldrsb instruction, which supports
the same addressing modes as ldrh. However, the restrictions appear
to apply only when the operand addresses a single byte. The memory
reference must thus be split into two operands each targeting one
byte. Finally, the "Uq" constraint is only available in ARM mode.
The Thumb-2 ldrh instruction supports most addressing modes so the
normal "m" constraint can be used there.
Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
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