Re: stack alignment in the kernel was Re: nasm over gas?

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:54:31PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > A compiler option to turn it off would make sense to save .text space
> > and eliminate these useless instructions. Especially since the kernel
> > entry points make no attempt to align the stack to 16 byte anyways,
> > so most likely the stack adjustments do not even work.
> 
> There is an option:
> 
> 	-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2

Hmm. The i386 Makefile sets that already. Where exactly did you see
bogus stack adjustments in kernel code?

-Andi
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