Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:38:41 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment |
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:40:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The 8-byte alignment mainly makes sense when the basic call sequence > just adds 8 bytes, and you have functions without frames (that still > call other functions).
The question is does it really make sense to save those 8 bytes of padding on x86-64 when arm64 apparently also requires 16-byte stack alignment.
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