GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:16:39PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	The Altivec ABI does change the stack alignment.  This should not
> create an incompatibility for old code, but new code may not receive the
> stack properly aligned without additional dynamic alignment.

I thought so, too, but Geoff explained to me that this is wrong.  It
only affects powerpc-eabi.  powerpc-linux already has a sufficiently
aligned stack; it's just not reflected in STACK_BOUNDARY.

On powerpc-linux, if you do not pass or return vector arguments, the
only affect of -mabi=altivec is that AltiVec registers are saved and
restored correctly.

On powerpc-eabi, we would need to dynamically align the stack for
-maltivec to behave.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery