Date: 30 Nov 1999 13:15:41 +0200 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ?? Message-ID: <86d7ssi61u.fsf@not.demophon.com> In-Reply-To: Julian Elischer's message of "30 Nov 1999 12:39:40 %2B0200" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911300236160.7938-100000@current1.whistle.com.newsgate.clinet.fi>
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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). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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