Re: How to control the offset for stack operation?

["J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza at gmail dot com>]

2007/4/16, Mohamed Shafi <shafitvm@gmail.com>:
> hello all,
>
> Depending on the machine mode the compiler will generate automatically
> the offset required for the stack operation i.e for a machine with
> word size is 32, for char type the offset is 1, for int type the
> offset is 2 and so on..
>
> Is there a way to control this ? i mean say for long long the offset
> is 4 if long long is mapped to TI mode and i want the generate the
> offset such that it is 2.
>
> Is there a way to do this in gcc ?
>
> Regards,
> Shafi

For a x86 machine, the stack's offset always is multiple of 4 bytes.

long long is NOT 4 bytes, is 8 bytes!

Sincerely J.C. Pizarro :)