> It is NOT a toolchain problem.  See my post to port-sparc64 on the
> subject.

Ok, there are multiple issues here. The version I backed out (using memcpy)
did no work - and I consider *that* a serious toolchain problem. Memcpy is
supposed to work for unaligned data, but gcc's inline expansion of it breaks
this.

Please feel free to improve the log message.

Martin