Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:12:03 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ?? Message-ID: <3843CD23.6221988A@scc.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911300236160.7938-100000@current1.whistle.com.newsgate.clinet.fi>, <86bt8ci3ai.fsf@not.demophon.com>
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Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > > What about commercial and/or third party KLDs? They fail to work if they > > don't also set -preferred-stack-boundry=2, right? > > Oops, I accidentally replied to this privately. > > Anyhow, I'll repeat it here - stack alignment does *not* break > link-compatibility. It does not change calling conventions, it just > adds padding after the args to ensure that local variables can be > predictably aligned. So, how does aligning stackframes affect the inherently static property of code size then? -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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