continuing egcs-1.1 problems

[Gary Thomas]

On 11-Nov-98 David Edelsohn wrote:
>       *NO* patches to work around this trampoline mess (neither the
> tramp.asm compare sense nor increasing the trampoline size from 40 to 48
> bytes) will be applied to egcs-1.1 or any other version as this was not a
> bug in any official GCC or EGCS distribution.  If there still is a stack
> alignment bug, we need to track that down and fix the code in GCC to
> maintain alignment.

How is it possible that the stack remain 16 byte aligned when an object
(the trampoline code) of only 40 bytes is being created [on the stack]?

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