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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:07:11 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, <hackers@freebsd.org>, <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
Subject:   Re: stack alignment issues
Message-ID:  <20020204120547.B2144-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020205043744.G23848-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michal Mertl wrote:
>
> > Did you look at the patch by Bruce at
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freebsd-current/message/39605 ?
> >
> > Bruce, is it still fresh in your memory? Can you comment on the patch -
> > can it be commited in some form?
>
> I haven't done anything to clean up the patch.  I hope the problem
> will go away in future versions of gcc (align the stack at runtime in
> the few routines that actually need it).
>
> Bruce

Well, if Linux aligns the initial stack, the chance that gcc will have
auto-alignment added sounds to be about zero.  You might as well go ahead
with your patch when you get a chance.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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