The bitfield-struct t0 in gcc.dg/pr94600-1.c ..-4.c is assigned to a
pointer that is a (volatile-and-pointer-)cast literal, so gcc doesn't
need to be otherwise told that the address is aligned. But, variants
pr94600-5.c ..-8.c are assigned through a "volatile t0 *", and rely on
the *type* being naturally aligned, or that the machine has
non-strict-alignment moves.
Unfortunately, systems exist (for some definitions of exist) where
such structs aren't always naturally aligned, for example if it
contains only (small) bitfields, even though the size is a naturally
accessible size. Specifically, the mmix-knuth-mmixware port has only
*byte* alignment for this struct. (If an int is added to the struct,
alignment is promoted.) IOW, a prerequisite of the test is false: the
struct doesn't have the same alignment as an integer of the same size.
The effect is assignment in byte-size pieces, and the test fails.
(For a non-volatile assignment, memcpy is called.) That's easily
fixable by defining the type as having a specific alignment. This is
also closer to the type in the original code, and also as the first
variants aren't affected, no second thought or re-visit of pre-fixed
compiler is needed. I don't plan to back-port this to gcc-10 branch
however. I did sanity-check that the tests still pass on
ppc64le-linux.
gcc/testsuite:
PR middle-end/94600
* gcc.dg/pr94600-5.c, gcc.dg/pr94600-6.c, gcc.dg/pr94600-7.c,
gcc.dg/pr94600-8.c: Align t0 to 4-byte boundary.
unsigned int f1 : 11;
unsigned int f2 : 10;
unsigned int f3 : 7;
-} t0;
+} t0 __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
static t0 a0[] = {
{ .f0 = 7, .f1 = 99, .f3 = 1, },
unsigned int f1 : 11;
unsigned int f2 : 10;
unsigned int f3 : 7;
-} t0;
+} t0 __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
void
bar(volatile t0 *b)
unsigned int f1 : 11;
unsigned int f2 : 10;
unsigned int f3 : 7;
-} t0;
+} t0 __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
static t0 a0[] = {
{ .f0 = 7, .f1 = 99, .f3 = 1, },
unsigned int f1 : 11;
unsigned int f2 : 10;
unsigned int f3 : 7;
-} t0;
+} t0 __attribute__((__aligned__(4)));
void
bar(volatile t0 *b)