[rfc] stack alignment macro cleanup
Paul Brook
paul@codesourcery.com
Mon Oct 4 18:00:00 GMT 2010
> I would like to reduce this to
>
> STACK_BOUNDARY
>
> -- minimum alignment enforced by hardware.
>...
> -- unchanged
This may be determined by factors other than hardware. For example the ARM
EABI requires that the stack be 8-byte aligned at public entry points. However
within a function the stack pointer is only required to be 4-byte aligned.
We currently set S_B=64 and hope nothing notices that the prologue/epilogue
involve transient 32-bit aligned values.
Your proposal doesn't make this problem any worse, if anything it's better
because we don't have to device between S_B and PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY. I'm
just noting that documenting this as a hardware property is at best
misleading.
Paul
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