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Re: ix86 double alignment (was Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule)


>>>>> "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.


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