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Re: ix86 double alignment (was Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule)
- To: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: ix86 double alignment (was Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule)
- From: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 24 Jun 1998 16:50:45 +0100
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199806232206.SAA00584@melange.gnu.org>
>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org> writes:
Craig> My current assumption is we are shooting for only 8-byte
Craig> alignment of the stack frame to obtain 8-byte alignment of
Craig> doubles within the frame. I think crt0 (or whatever) already
Craig> assures this, but don't know for sure about that or whether it
Craig> further assures 16-byte or 32-byte alignment.
glibc2 does 8-byte alignment, Linux libc5 only does 4-byte (or did in
the last version I checked, but seemed easy to change); likewise
DJGPP. I can't remember the story on Cygwin -- is that glibc2-based?
No info on x86 Solaris et al.