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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:20:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] c compiler bug
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>and then an appropriate sequence of byte-by-byte loads (or stores) will be
>used to access it,

for static references such as s.c there's an optimisation that allows the nearest
aligned values to be loaded, shifted & masked, and or'd together to save accesses
by byte, but that doesn't seem to be possible for an unaligned pointer reference.