Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 1997 02:10:42 +0000 (GMT) | From | Clive Messer <> | Subject | Re: CONUNDRUM. |
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
> > > First guess Alexey. Linux crt0.s doesnt align the stack on an eight byte > > > boundary. > > > > Any reason why it shouldn't? Could this simple thing case a >10% > > performance drop for some applications? If so why wasn't this noticed and > > fixed long ago? > > Alan's first guess makes sense in that the Fortran people have been > complaining about exactly that problem for quite some time.
I just noticed in HJ's libc Changelog, 5.4.21-5.4.22 .......
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jan 29 20:50:53 1997 H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
* sysdeps/linux/i386/crt/crt0.S: align stack to 8 bytes. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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