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Re: PR65416, alloca on xtensa


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Marc Gauthier <marc@cadence.com> wrote:
> Other than the required 16-byte stack alignment, there's nothing in
> the ABI that requires these extra 16 bytes.  Perhaps there was a bad
> implementation of the alloca exception handler at some point a long
> time ago that prompted the extra 16 bytes?

The alloca handler has been rewritten at least twice since this code
was last updated, so that wouldn't surprise me at all. I would approve
a change to eliminate it.


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