continuing egcs-1.1 problems
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Nov 10 17:34:00 GMT 1998
In message < Pine.LNX.3.96.981110090146.1074A-100000@keeshond.aerodyne.com >you
write:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> > I thought we had decided the patch to tweak the alignment was wrong -- se
> ems
> > to me that other code should be ensuring that the stack stays properly
> > aligned, regardless of the size of the trampoline.
> >
>
> Then where should it go? Please believe me when I say that I'm no expert
> on the internals of egcs. :-) Realizing that someone from our camp must
> become one, I've started to study the code, but I wouldn't expect me to
> make any sensible suggestions for quite a long time.
There is standard code in the machine independent parts of the compiler to
keep the stack aligned. If it is not working, then that is a bug. Changing
the size of the trampoline to keep the stack aligned is just papering over
the problem.
jeff
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