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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ??
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From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Date: 30 Nov 1999 13:15:41 +0200
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Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> writes:

> When did this come in? (I have been seeing it for a while but..
> I thought this was to save space on the bootblocks, not the entire
> kernel?)
>  Do we really want shorts being pushed onto the stack as shorts?
> (This is what this implies)

No, the units are actually powers-of-two and that overrides the
default of aligning for doubles (which would be useless in the
kernel).


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