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Re: PR65416, alloca on xtensa
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Marc Gauthier <marc at cadence dot com>, "augustine dot sterling at gmail dot com" <augustine dot sterling at gmail dot com>, Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:05:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: PR65416, alloca on xtensa
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On 03/13/2015 06:04 PM, Marc Gauthier 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?
What's the alignment of max_align_t on this architecture?
Although it should be possible to get a 16-byte aligned 1-byte object in
any (however misaligned) 16-byte window on the stack â
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security