[PATCH] Update InstCombine to transform aggregate loads into scalar loads.

[Mehdi Amini]

> On Apr 20, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Philip Reames <listmail at philipreames.com> wrote:
> 
> ================
> Comment at: lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineLoadStoreAlloca.cpp:517
> @@ +516,3 @@
> +                                               ".unpack");
> +      Instruction *V = InsertValueInst::Create(
> +        UndefValue::get(T), NewLoad, 0, LI.getName());
> ----------------
> deadalnix wrote:
>> reames wrote:
>>> You're missing the setPointerOperand step.  Technically, the first element doesn't have to start at the beginning of the object.  I think this is fine in practice, but there's a theoretical issue here.  
>> I'm not sure how this is possible at all.
> Unless the struct is packed, the data layout alignment could require that the internal field be aligned to a higher alignment than the struct.  This would be a weird arrangement, but I believe it's possible.

I thought the structure alignment was computed as the largest individual member alignment. 
I think the relevant function is StructLayout::StructLayout(StructType *ST, const DataLayout &DL), and it seems to me that it always places the first element with a 0 offset.

Is there another way to force the structure alignment?

— 
Mehdi