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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:04:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, <hackers@freebsd.org>, <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
Subject:   Re: stack alignment issues
Message-ID:  <20020205170020.V1617-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020205121923.O59017@elvis.mu.org>

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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [020205 12:09] wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > > foo:
> > > > 	pushl %ebp
> > > > 	movl %esp,%ebp
> > > > 	subl $8,%esp		# <- extra instruction for alignment (for foo)
> > > > 	addl $-12,%esp		# <- extra instruction for alignment (for f1)
> > >
> > > What disgusting code.  I find it amazing that they didn't even stick in
> > > some peephole optimizer to at least limit it to one operation.
> >
> > It's clearly the result of work in progress :-).
>
> I see really cruddy stuff like this every time i do a gcc -S, don't
> they watch for and try to fix this sort of thing?
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]

Did you see that press release about how Microsoft is taking a month off
from coding new features and dedicating everyone to fixing bugs?  I can
see an analogous headline:

"FreeBSD developers get sick of gcc's code generation, devote March to
compiler rewrite"

and in related news:

"Brett Glass finds out that FreeBSD developers are working on gcc and
suffers a nervous breakdown."

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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