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From: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, ubizjak@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR target/40838: gcc shouldn't assume that the stack is  aligned
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0908070254030.30134@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)

> > In 32bit, the incoming stack may not be 16 byte aligned.  This patch
> > assumes the incoming stack is 4 byte aligned and realigns stack if any
> > SSE variable is put on stack. Any comments?
>
> IMHO this is wrong, I could live with a non-default option for those who 
> don't care about performance and think a SCO document from 1996 has any 
> relevance to Linux these days.  In reality a Linux ABI for years assumes 
> 16 byte stack alignment for 32-bit code.
> 
>        Jakub

Tell me which Linux distribution did you run with 16-byte stack alignment 
checking (as proposed in bug 40838) and what was the result?

For me, the result was that 75% of binaries in /bin in Debian Lenny do not 
align the stack on 16-byte boundary.

Mikulas

             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-07  0:54 Mikulas Patocka [this message]
2009-08-07  7:13 ` Jakub Jelinek
2009-08-07 12:53   ` H.J. Lu
2009-08-07 22:30     ` H.J. Lu
2009-08-08 17:35       ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-08-16 21:25         ` H.J. Lu
2009-08-24 17:39       ` H.J. Lu
2009-09-12 23:32         ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-09-12 23:42           ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-09-13  1:55           ` H.J. Lu
2009-09-13 14:10             ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-08-07 21:08   ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-08-07 21:25     ` Richard Guenther
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-06 21:42 H.J. Lu
2009-08-06 22:26 ` Jakub Jelinek
2009-08-06 22:52   ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-15 15:58 ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-15 18:45   ` Uros Bizjak
2009-10-15 19:22     ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-15 19:32       ` Uros Bizjak
2009-10-15 19:43         ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-15 19:48           ` Jakub Jelinek
2009-10-15 20:11             ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-15 19:53           ` Uros Bizjak
2009-10-15 21:01             ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-15 21:41               ` Uros Bizjak
2009-10-16 20:27     ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-17  1:03       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-17 18:22         ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-17 19:02           ` Richard Guenther
2009-10-17 19:21             ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-17 19:29               ` Richard Guenther
2009-10-17 19:35                 ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-17 19:46                   ` Richard Guenther
2009-10-17 20:01                     ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-17 20:59                       ` Richard Guenther
2009-10-18 19:21                         ` Michael Matz
2009-10-18 19:45                           ` Richard Guenther
2009-10-19 16:36                             ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-20  1:12                               ` Michael Matz
2009-10-20 19:10                                 ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-19 16:38                           ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-19 17:08                             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-19 17:26                               ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-19 17:33                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-19 17:46                                   ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-19 17:55                                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-19 19:16                                       ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-19 21:15                                         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-20 19:00                                           ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-20  1:23                                         ` Michael Matz
2009-10-20 19:12                                           ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-20  1:53                             ` Michael Matz
2009-10-20 21:15                               ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-21  1:10                                 ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-21  9:54                                   ` Michael Matz
2009-10-21 16:56                                     ` H.J. Lu
2009-10-30 10:08                                       ` Richard Guenther
2009-10-17  7:09       ` Uros Bizjak

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