From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: john@feith.com (John Wehle)
Cc: burley@gnu.org, d.love@dl.ac.uk, egcs@cygnus.com, davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
Subject: Re: ix86 double alignment (was Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule) 
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:23:00 -0000
Message-id: <25521.898733296@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <199806242143.RAA15394@jwlab.FEITH.COM>
X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg00881.html

  In message < 199806242143.RAA15394@jwlab.FEITH.COM >you write:
  > What about defining PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY to mean the optimal stack
  > alignment and having it default to STACK_BOUNDARY?  Then change the
  > places which align the stack based on STACK_BOUNDARY to use
  > PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY.  Leave code which implements optimizations
  > (and records the stack alignment) based on STACK_BOUNDARY alone.  This
  > way gcc will attempt to align the stack based on PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY
  > and assume STACK_BOUNDARY when implementing optimizations which should
  > be safe (assuming that PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY >= STACK_BOUNDARY is
  > enforced).
  > 
  > I known ... I've probably oversimplified the issue. :-)
That's basically what I expect to happen, or something very similar.

jeff