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Re: Possible minor bugs in PPC/SYSV stacklayout
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: Possible minor bugs in PPC/SYSV stacklayout
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:39:00 +0200
- Cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com,Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- References: <Message from Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com><4.2.0.32.19990428200626.03b83b80@mail.lauterbach.com>
At 20:30 28.04.99 , David Edelsohn wrote:
>>>>>> Franz Sirl writes:
>
>Franz> The other thing is that the current mainline allocates a stackframe
>that is
>Franz> roughly twice as large as the stackframe allocated by egcs-1.1.2.
>David,
>Franz> could this be caused by the 64-bit stuff you checked in?
>
> I doubt it. I did not affect SVR4 with my changes.
Ok, I'll look closer into the calculations then and check what changed
compared to 1.1.2. Thinking it over this change in behavior might be quite
serious though, cause it doubles the stackspace required by the kernel,
which certainly is not good.
Franz.