Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Preventing gcc from aligning stack??? | Date | 25 Jan 2000 09:40:59 -0800 |
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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).
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