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Re: i386 stack missalignment on main


On Jul 31, 2001, Joern Rennecke <amylaar@redhat.com> wrote:

> P.S.: Another way would be, at the start of the function, to push the
> old stack pointer, and if alignment requires and adjustment, memmove
> all the arguemnts in the stack and the saved stack pointer to fit with
> the adjusted stack pointer.
> So no extra register is required.

This assumes you know the length of the arguments.  Sometimes
(think varargs), you don't.

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