Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:52:06 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Preventing gcc from aligning stack??? |
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Michael Meissner wrote: > It doesn't matter which machine is chosen (the machine type only sets > the default alignments). I believe the original problem is for System > V.4 targets (Linux ELF is a SVR4 target) in 2.7.2.3 did not set > MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT, which meant that the compiler assumed that the > maximum alignment was 4 or 8 bytes. Under 2.95 and beyond, the > compiler knows you can specify higher alignments.
I think this shows that most people are using GCC 2.95 to compile their 2.3 kernels. So shouldn't Documentation/Changes be updated to reflect this?
-- Jamie
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