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Dieter Buerssner wrote:

> and running a.exe, then uncomment the const close to the end
> of the listing and recompile and rerun. Please post or mail your
> results, maybe including your processor and versions of gcc and
> binutils (I have AMD K6-2,

K6 CPUs have a "bug" related to aligment. If some memory address is in a
0xNNNNNC, you'll have a big penalty to read it. 0, 4 and 8 are ok,
but C is the worst case (by far), double check you are not hiting this
limitation.

SET

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