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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: stack alignment issues
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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [020205 12:28] wrote:
> 
>     I've been forced to add -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 to critical code
>     in certain projects to get rid of the crap GCC adds to the assembly.
> 
>     I don't mind if GCC aligns the stack for routines that actually need
>     it, but what it does now - assume that the stack is already aligned and
>     then realign in every single fragging procedure call is utterly and
>     completely stupid.  Someone should shoot the idiot that put that into
>     the tree.

Now Matt... tell us how you really feel. :)

Better yet, flame the gcc developers and tell them to fix this ungodly
breakage.

-Alfred

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