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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