[LLVMdev] byte store requires read-modify-write sequence

jpbonn jp-keyword-llvmdev.cff0a2 at jpbonn.com
Wed Mar 18 18:34:54 PDT 2009


Our processor only does 32bit reads and writes to memory.  Changing a 
byte requires a 32bit read, modify, 32bit write sequence to change the 
8bit value in memory.

How should this be handled?

Do any of the other current backends do this?



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