Re: Preventing gcc from aligning stack???

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 12:40:59 EST


Followup to: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0001251219060.5519422-100000@paju.oulu.fi>
By author: Tuukka Toivonen <tutoivon@mail.student.oulu.fi>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'd like to ask, why? Even double is only 8 bytes. Does this mean that 12
> bytes is wasted each argumentless call and -fno-omit-frame-pointer, for
> saving ebp?
>

The native fp format on IA32 is "long double" -- 80 bits (10 bytes).

    -hpa

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