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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 support in dl-machine.h

On Mar 14, 2003, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de> wrote:

> Then the use of memcpy won't help.  Since both the source and the
> destination are pointers to ElfW(Addr) the compiler has the right to
> assume that they are correctly aligned.

Hmm...  Good point.  As far as I can tell from looking at
expand_builtin_memcpy, casting the possibly-mis-aligned pointer to
(char*) should be enough to fix it, no?

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