The built-in memcpy uses unaligned reads/writes and this crashes my ARM-A5 processor.

[Roger W. Cover]

I am using an Atmel SAMA5D35 processor. It is an ARM Cortex-A5. The unaligned reads and writes inserted by the compiler for memcpy() calls are not supported by this processor. The processor experiences a memory access fault as a result.
I have worked around the problem by using the -fno-builtin-memcpy argument on the command line. I wanted to report the problem so it can be fixed, however.

[Prakhar Bahuguna (prakhar-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Roger, can I confirm if you're compiling with the -mno-unaligned-access flag? By default GCC only disallows unaligned memory accesses for pre-ARMv6, all ARMv6-M and for ARMv8-M Baseline architectures, so in the case of your Cortex-A5 it may generate unaligned accesses unless you explicitly disable it.

If the issue persists even with the -mno-unaligned-access flag being specified, we will look into this.

[Roger W. Cover (rwcover)]

Greetings,

I was not using the -mno-unaligned- access flag. That flag also prevents the compiler from generating the incorrect inline code.

I was not aware the -mno-unaligned- access flag existed. Sorry for the trouble. I will be using this flag from now on.

Regards,
Roger
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Subject: [Bug 1669879] Re: The built-in memcpy uses unaligned reads/writes and this crashes my ARM-A5 processor.

Hi Roger, can I confirm if you're compiling with the -mno-unaligned- access flag? By default GCC only disallows unaligned memory accesses for pre-ARMv6, all ARMv6-M and for ARMv8-M Baseline architectures, so in the case of your Cortex-A5 it may generate unaligned accesses unless you explicitly disable it.

If the issue persists even with the -mno-unaligned-access flag being specified, we will look into this.

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Title:
  The built-in memcpy uses unaligned reads/writes and this crashes my
  ARM-A5 processor.

Status in GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain:
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Bug description:
  I am using an Atmel SAMA5D35 processor. It is an ARM Cortex-A5. The unaligned reads and writes inserted by the compiler for memcpy() calls are not supported by this processor. The processor experiences a memory access fault as a result.
  I have worked around the problem by using the -fno-builtin-memcpy argument on the command line. I wanted to report the problem so it can be fixed, however.

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