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Re: local var alignment on hppa
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: local var alignment on hppa
- From: law at redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:15:23 -0600
- cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, John Marvin <jsm at fc dot hp dot com>
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <20011019105441.F8680@redhat.com>you write:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:57:17AM -0600, law@redhat.com wrote:
> > Maybe I'm in the dark ages, but what value is having a lock on the stack?
> > ie, when is it ever useful to use ldcw on automatic storage?
>
> When you allocate a structure from automatic storage, link it
> in to global data structures, then sleep til someone wakes you.
Ugh. OK. I see. I guess we do have to think more about how to deal with
this problem.
jeff