Default stack alignment on x86-64, fedora 11

Rohit Garg rpg.314@gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 17:38:00 GMT 2009


> You should be able to use __attribute__ ((aligned (16))) to make this
> happen.
I knew that, it's just that I wanted to minimize cache pollution
because my app thrashes cache badly. My bigger question is if stack is
16 byte aligned by default on modern 64 bit distributions?

Thanks,
-- 
Rohit Garg

http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/

Senior Undergraduate
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay



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