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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:44:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   PERFORCE change 29658 for review
Message-ID:  <200304250044.h3P0i2aA011300@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Change 29658 by peter@peter_daintree on 2003/04/24 17:43:07

	gah! gag me with a spoon!
	We have to deliberately odd-align the starting stack pointer because
	gcc "knows" that there is a return address pushed there and will
	push the wrong number of longs onto the stack, causing everything
	to be misaligned.

Affected files ...

.. //depot/projects/hammer/sys/x86_64/x86_64/machdep.c#80 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/projects/hammer/sys/x86_64/x86_64/machdep.c#80 (text+ko) ====

@@ -466,7 +466,8 @@
 
 	bzero((char *)regs, sizeof(struct trapframe));
 	regs->tf_rip = entry;
-	regs->tf_rsp = stack;
+	/* This strangeness is to ensure alignment after the implied return address */
+	regs->tf_rsp = ((stack - 8) & ~0xF) + 8;
 	regs->tf_rdi = stack;		/* argv */
 	regs->tf_rflags = PSL_USER | (regs->tf_rflags & PSL_T);
 	regs->tf_ss = _udatasel;



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