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Re: A proposal to align GCC stack
- From: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:33:18 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: A proposal to align GCC stack
Andrew Pinski writes:
> Can we stop talking about x86/x86_64 specifics issues here?
No.
>I have an use case for the PowerPC side of the Cell BE for variables
>greater than the normal stack boundary alignment of 16bytes. They need
>to be 128byte aligned for DMA transfering to the SPUs.
>
>I already proposed a patch [1] to fix this use case but I have not
>seen many replies yet.
Complaining about someone talking about x86/x86_64 specific issues and
then bringing up a PowerPC/Cell specific issue is probably not the best
way to go about getting your patch approved.
Ross Ridge