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

[Marc Lehmann <pcg at goof dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 06:11:55PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   > "by value" (C style) at all, now that I think about it more.  It'd
>   > surely break the ABI.
> Right.  That's basically what I was trying to explain in one or more
> of those longer messages.  You can't align stuff in the arglist without
> either breaking the ABI or blowing away the alignment we want for the
> stack pointer.

-malign-double already breaks the abi, and is reeeealy useful. considerung
it doesn't cost anything at all to implement -marg-align-double (except
fixing a bug/deficiency in calls.c). I'd guess people would be happy for the
additional 1%.

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