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authorStan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>2005-02-22 23:38:02 +0000
committerStan Shebs <shebs@gcc.gnu.org>2005-02-22 23:38:02 +0000
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rs6000.c (rs6000_override_options): Default to natural alignment for 64-bit Darwin.
* config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_override_options): Default to natural alignment for 64-bit Darwin. (rs6000_parse_alignment_option): Warn about uses of -malign-power on 64-bit Darwin. * doc/invoke.texi: Document this. From-SVN: r95420
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/config/rs6000')
-rw-r--r--gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c
index 267a161..ea5c010 100644
--- a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c
+++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c
@@ -1316,6 +1316,8 @@ rs6000_override_options (const char *default_cpu)
#if TARGET_MACHO
darwin_one_byte_bool = "";
#endif
+ /* Default to natural alignment, for better performance. */
+ rs6000_alignment_flags = MASK_ALIGN_NATURAL;
}
/* Handle -mabi= options. */
@@ -1684,7 +1686,16 @@ rs6000_parse_alignment_option (void)
if (rs6000_alignment_string == 0)
return;
else if (! strcmp (rs6000_alignment_string, "power"))
- rs6000_alignment_flags = MASK_ALIGN_POWER;
+ {
+ /* On 64-bit Darwin, power alignment is ABI-incompatible with
+ some C library functions, so warn about it. The flag may be
+ useful for performance studies from time to time though, so
+ don't disable it entirely. */
+ if (DEFAULT_ABI == ABI_DARWIN && TARGET_64BIT)
+ warning ("-malign-power is not supported for 64-bit Darwin;"
+ " it is incompatible with the installed C and C++ libraries");
+ rs6000_alignment_flags = MASK_ALIGN_POWER;
+ }
else if (! strcmp (rs6000_alignment_string, "natural"))
rs6000_alignment_flags = MASK_ALIGN_NATURAL;
else