Subject: Re: Possible bug in arm32 strongarm optimisations.
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@buzzbee.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 10/25/2000 08:33:04 
>turning:
>ldr r3, [r5, #6]
>mov r0, r3, lsr #16
>into
>ldrh r0, [r5, #4]
>
>This occurs at about line 289/290 of sys/arch/arm32/podulebus/podulebus.c
>I believe it should actually produce:
>ldrh r0, [r5, #8]

No, the compiler is correct.  Unaligned loads behave in a slightly surprising 
way on ARM.

p.