On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 11:13:45AM -0700, PÃ¥l-Kristian Engstad wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Although double-alignment on stack variables would be a bad idea (for
> most situations), it would make perfect sense in certain situations.
> 
> For instance, leaf functions could certainly benefit from being stack
> aligned. Also, functions which only call leaf functions that are stack
> aligned can use stack alignment.

I don't see why this is only beneficial for leaf functions? Any functions
using doubles heavily benefits from this optimization. Unfortunately,
its almost impossible to enforce stack alignment only for leaf functions..


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