BUG: GCC-4.4.x changes the function frame on some functions

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Thu Nov 19 16:19:00 GMT 2009


Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> There is no real obvious reason why the edi magic needs to be done
>>> _before_ 
>>>
>>> 	push   %ebp
>>> 	mov    %esp,%ebp
>> Sure there is: unless you do the adjustment first %ebp won't be 16-aligned.
> 
> And why is this not done in 99% of the functions in the kernel, just
> in this one and some random others ?

If I could see the function I might be able to tell you.  It's either a
performance enhancement, something to do with SSE, or it's a bug.

Andrew.



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