From:	"Doug Gale" <dgaleNOSPAM AT mailexcite DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: either I'm stupid or GCC once again has random behaviour
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Date:	Wed, 03 Jan 2001 06:28:49 GMT
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It is not a good idea to stosw/stosl to an unaligned address (multi-cycle
penalty for each write). Maybe gcc called memset because it wasn't sure the
destination address was aligned.

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