Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:32:01 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Preventing gcc from aligning stack??? |
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Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On 25 Jan 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > The native fp format on IA32 is "long double" -- 80 bits (10 bytes). > > Yes, but this is not relevant here. The 10byte floating point is used in > practice only internally to the FPU. Yes, you can read and store it but > nobody does that, since it's so much slower than a normal float or double > (on Pentium, atleast). >
You have to if you're going to spill a register.
-hpa
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