Re: Testers needed for GCC patch

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313%cygnus.com@localhost>]

Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> Hi folks...
> 
> I've backported David's changes to fix unaligned accesses for certain
> access modes on the PowerPC port to the EGCS we have in the NetBSD source
> tree.  But I can't easily test it.
> 
> Could someone apply the following patch to their -current source tree,
> rebuild the compiler, and then rebuild any problem apps that were causing
> the unaligned accesses?
> 
> Let me know how it goes; I'd like to have this in the tree for 1.5.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>

You could build PSIM with --enable-sim-alignment=strict.  It will then
``spit the dummy'' at any attempt to perform a misaligned access.

        Andrew