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Fix mscorlib warnings. #20

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PinnableBufferCache uses some of the declaritive CAS attributes which
don't mean anything on CoreCLR. We had disabled this warning
internally, but this copy of the file is specific to open source and
we didn't disable it in this file.

This simply ports the change to disable this warning to mscorlib's
copy of the file.

PinnableBufferCache uses some of the declaritive CAS attributes which
don't mean anything on CoreCLR. We had disabled this warning
internally, but this copy of the file is specific to open source and
we didn't disable it in this file.

This simply ports the change to disable this warning to mscorlib's
copy of the file.
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LGTM

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@ellismg ellismg merged commit b846bb4 into dotnet:master Feb 3, 2015
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leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 9, 2016
…ccess on O3

This patch is to resolve bus errors in case of the O3 of clang (issue #5844).

When we enable the -O2/-O3 optimization levels of the clang language (from clang 3.5
to latest version that was released on Jun-13-2016), we have got the +3000 BUS Errors
from the coreCLR's unit tests. We can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility of kernel-space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes theproblems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
* source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debugging) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O2 (release) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately ldrdb instruction always generates an alignment fault (in practice).
It seems that clang uses ldrb instructions algthough Gcc uses ldr because armv7
supports unalign ldr instruction.

Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
So, let's use memcpy(2) in into a properly aligned buffer instead of
the packing attribute.

Note: If architecture (e.g., linux/arm emulator) does not support unaligned ldr,
this issue will be not generated with -O2/-O3 optimization levels.

* source: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 11, 2016
This patch is to resolve bus errors in case of the O3 of clang (issue #5844).
Note that we cannot use malloc library call "clib deprecates" of ./src/inc/clrhost.h.

When we enable the -O2/-O3 optimization levels of the clang language (from clang 3.5
to latest version that was released on Jun-13-2016), we have got the +3000 BUS Errors
from the coreCLR's unit tests. We can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility of kernel-space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes theproblems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
* source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debugging) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O2 (release) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately ldrdb instruction always generates an alignment fault (in practice).
It seems that clang uses ldrb instructions algthough Gcc uses ldr because armv7
supports unalign ldr instruction.

Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
So, let's use memcpy(2) in into a properly aligned buffer instead of
the packing attribute.

Note: If architecture (e.g., linux/arm emulator) does not support unaligned ldr,
this issue will be not generated with -O2/-O3 optimization levels.

* source: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2016
…on O3

This patch is to resolve bus errors in case of the O3 of clang (issue # 5 8 4 4).

When we enable the -O2/-O3 optimization levels of the clang language (from clang 3.5
to latest version that was released on Jun-13-2016), we have got the +3000 BUS Errors
from the coreCLR's unit tests. We can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility of kernel-space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
* source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debugging) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O2 (release) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately ldrdb instruction always generates an alignment fault (in practice).
It seems that clang uses ldrb instructions although Gcc uses ldr because armv7
supports unalign ldr instruction.

Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
So, let's use memcpy(2) in into a properly aligned buffer instead of
the packing attribute.

Note: If architecture (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support unaligned ldr,
this issue will be not generated with -O2/-O3 optimization levels.

* source: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2016
This patch is to resolve 3800+ bus errors with attribute keyword in case of
the O3 optimization level of clang (issue # 5 8 4 4 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the +3000 BUS Errors
from the coreCLR's unit tests. We can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel-space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
* source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debugging) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
So,in order to enable aggressive optimization level such as O3, let's use attribute
keword using aligned()of 1 byte instead of using memcpy(2) in into a properly aligned
buffer or the packing attribute.

Note: If arm architecture (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support unaligned ldr,
this issue will not be generated with -O3 optimization level.

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 19, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue # 5 8 4 4 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2016
This patch is to resolve bus errors in case of the O3 of clang (issue # 5 8 4 4).

When we enable the -O2/-O3 optimization levels of the clang language (from clang 3.5
to latest version that was released on Jun-13-2016), we have got the +3000 BUS Errors
from the coreCLR's unit tests. We can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility of kernel-space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
* source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debugging) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O2 (release) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately ldrdb instruction always generates an alignment fault (in practice).
It seems that clang uses ldrb instructions although Gcc uses ldr because armv7
supports unalign ldr instruction.

Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
So, let's use memcpy(2) in into a properly aligned buffer instead of
the packing attribute.

Note: If architecture (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support unaligned ldr,
this issue will be not generated with -O2/-O3 optimization levels.

* source: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2016
This patch is to resolve bus errors in case of the O3 of clang (issue # 5 8 4 4).

When we enable the -O2/-O3 optimization levels of the clang language (from clang 3.5
to latest version that was released on Jun-13-2016), we have got the +3000 BUS Errors
from the coreCLR's unit tests. We can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility of kernel-space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
* source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debugging) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O2 (release) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately ldrdb instruction always generates an alignment fault (in practice).
It seems that clang uses ldrb instructions although Gcc uses ldr because armv7
supports unalign ldr instruction.

Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
So, let's use memcpy(2) in into a properly aligned buffer instead of
the packing attribute.

Note: If architecture (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support unaligned ldr,
this issue will be not generated with -O2/-O3 optimization levels.

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 22, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32' (compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp) [D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 22, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* source: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 4:**
. Use 'GET_UNALIGNED_VALXXX' macros in the CoreClr infra-structure without
  any need for ifdefs.

**VERSION 3:**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2:**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1:**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 4**
. Use 'GET_UNALIGNED_VALXXX' macros in the CoreClr infra-structure without
  any need for ifdefs.

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimisation levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 4**
. Use 'GET_UNALIGNED_VALXXX' macros in the CoreClr infra-structure without
  any need for ifdefs.

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimization levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
leemgs added a commit to leemgs/coreclr that referenced this pull request Jul 25, 2016
**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 4**
. Use 'GET_UNALIGNED_VALXXX' macros in the CoreClr infra-structure without
  any need for ifdefs.

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimization levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
jkotas pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 26, 2016
…6379)

**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue #5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 4**
. Use 'GET_UNALIGNED_VALXXX' macros in the CoreClr infra-structure without
  any need for ifdefs.

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimization levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, #24]
 ldr r2, [r0, #20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, #20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
BruceForstall pushed a commit to BruceForstall/coreclr that referenced this pull request Aug 9, 2016
picenka21 pushed a commit to picenka21/runtime that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2022
…otnet/coreclr#6379)

**PROBLEM**
This patch is to resolve +3000 bus errors that are generated whenever we use
the aggressive optimization levels of clang (issue dotnet/coreclr#5844 ).

When we enable the -O3 optimization level of the clang version(from clang 3.5
to clang 3.9(snapshot)), we have always got the lots of bus errors from the
coreCLR's unit tests. Actually, we can easily monitor SIGBUS signals (e.g.,
"misaligned memory access") with /proc/cpu/alignment facility in kernel space.
Using "echo 2 > /proc/cpu/alignment" makes Linux kernel fixes the problems
but the performance of the application will be degraded.
.source: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment

**VERSION 4**
. Use 'GET_UNALIGNED_VALXXX' macros in the CoreClr infra-structure without
  any need for ifdefs.

**VERSION 3**
.Apply this PR on only Linux/ARM for different system environment (Windows).

Here is .NET CI Report on Windows: Compile Error
error C2146: syntax error: missing ';' before identifier '__unaligned_int32'
(compiling source file D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\src\jit\alloc.cpp)
[D:\j\workspace\checked_windo---f6dc6fe4\bin\obj\Windows_NT.x64.Checked\src\jit\
crossgen\clrjit_crossgen.vcxproj] Indication 1

**VERSION 2**
.Add UNALIGNED_ARM macro for handling ARM core specific optimization levels.
.Add RISC-based ARM core handling into the existing infra-structure of the
platform adaptation layer (PAL) for aggressive optimization cases on Linux/ARM.

**VERSION 1**
Basically, RISC-based ARM architecture requires aligned access with 4byte reads.
In order to support aggressive optimization levels such as O2/O3, let's use
attribute keyword of aligned(1) instead of using memcpy(2) in into
a properly aligned buffer or the packing attribute.

**BACKGROUND**
According to ARM information center(infocenter.arm.com), By default,
the ARM compiler expects normal C and C++ pointers to point
to an aligned word in memory. A type qualifier __packed is provided to
enable unaligned pointer access. If you want to define a pointer to a word
that can be at any address (that is, that can be at a non-natural alignment),
you must specify this using the __packed qualifier when defining the pointer:
__packed int *pi; // pointer to unaligned int

However, clang/llvm does not support the __packed qualifier such as
__attribute__((packed)) or __attribute__((packed, aligned(4)))

In -O0 (debug build) the innermost block is emitted as the following assembly,
which works properly:
 ldr r1, [r0, dotnet/coreclr#24]
 ldr r2, [r0, dotnet/coreclr#20]

In -O3 (release build) however the compiler realizes these fields are adjacent
and generates this assembly:
 ldrdeq  r2, r3, [r0, dotnet/coreclr#20]
Unfortunately, vldr/ldrdb instructions always generate an alignment fault
(in practice). It seems that clang uses ldrb instruction although GCC uses
ldr instruction because armv7 supports unaligned ldr instruction.

Note: If some arm architectures (e.g., Linux/ARM Emulator) does not support
unaligned ldr, this issue is not generated with aggressive optimization
levels (e.g., -O2 and -O3).

* Case study: How does the ARM Compiler support unaligned accesses?
  http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

* Case study: Indicating unaligned access to Clang for ARM compatibility
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185811/indicating-unaligned-access-to-clang-for-arm-compatibility

* Case study: Chromium source for UnalignedLoad32() on ARM
  https://github.com/nwjs/chromium.src/blob/nw15/third_party/cld/base/basictypes.h#L302

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>

Commit migrated from dotnet/coreclr@561b64d
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