Does gcc on a sparc suffer from alignment migrains?

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From: Larry Williamson
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 13:39

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We have some code that skips through a byte stream pulling out
interesting values. There are some values of type long in this stream,
but these values are not on any guaranteed to be on a long word
boundry, (though they are guarenteed to be on a short word boundry).

gcc (version 1.40) seems to get a migraine from this. When the long is
accessed from the stream and it is not on a long word boundry we get a
bus error.

What can be done? Did I build gcc incorrectly? The machine is a sun
ipc (sparc) running sunos 4.1.1.

Thanks for any help you may have to offer.

-Larry

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