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Re: Plans for Linux ELF "i686+" ABI ? Like SPARC V8+ ?


"Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
>
> The idea is not exactly new, the main complication is that it would need
> hacking both the gcc (and glibc) side and the kernel syscall interface.  The
> 32bit compatibility entries cannot be used if you want to align long long and
> double naturally (which you certainly want, for performance reasons).

double is already naturally aligned on i386, just long long isn't.

-Andi


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