Re: Release version generated unexpected results

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Norbert Unterberg <nunterberg@newsgroups.nospam>

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:47:13 +0200

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Devang schrieb:

On Sep 16, 3:01 pm, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha...@satorlaser.com> wrote:

Devang wrote:

But why it works with debug version and not with release version.

The debug code is pretty much a translation of the source code to some load
and store instructions. For the release code, the compiler analyses the
sourcecode in order to perform optimisations on it. These optimisations
rely stronger on the sourcecode being valid, e.g. they might assume that
the pointer was suitably aligned and also that no aliasing rules are
broken. If these assumptions don't hold, the optimiser can fail; sometimes
it can still emit a warning, sometimes it can't.

Uli

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I tried to set Struct alignment to 8 byte.
But still facing the same problem.

Setting structure alignment changes nothing if you use a CHAR_I8 array to store
the data you want to convert. Since the code you posted does not show any
obvious bugs I assume the problem is in the code that calls your convert
function. Maybe you want to post some of the calling code, too

Norbert

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