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Date:      Wed, 01 Dec 1999 02:06:07 +0300
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ?? 
Message-ID:  <199911302306.CAA02391@tejblum.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Dec 1999 06:13:13 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912010603070.15878-100000@alphplex.bde.org> 

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Bruce Evans wrote:
>  I would have
> expected the most generally efficient way to align doubles and the new PIII
> obkects to be aligning the stack only in functions that have such objects
> on the stack.  This requires at most one extra instruction:
> 
> 	andl $~0xf,$esp		16-byte alignment

I think, it's not that simple in the usual case when the object is accessed via 
(%ebp-<someconstant>).

Dima




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