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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:37:32 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu
Subject:   Re: stack alignment issues
Message-ID:  <20020205123732.Q59017@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200202052028.g15KSvj29739@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:28:57PM -0800
References:  <20020205134035.M1617-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020206071049.S502-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020205121923.O59017@elvis.mu.org> <200202052028.g15KSvj29739@apollo.backplane.com>

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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [020205 12:28] wrote:
> 
>     I've been forced to add -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 to critical code
>     in certain projects to get rid of the crap GCC adds to the assembly.
> 
>     I don't mind if GCC aligns the stack for routines that actually need
>     it, but what it does now - assume that the stack is already aligned and
>     then realign in every single fragging procedure call is utterly and
>     completely stupid.  Someone should shoot the idiot that put that into
>     the tree.

Now Matt... tell us how you really feel. :)

Better yet, flame the gcc developers and tell them to fix this ungodly
breakage.

-Alfred

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