From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 5 16:21:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D4437B439 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:21:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16YFpk-0005Ry-00; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 01:21:08 +0100 Received: from spirit.corecode.ath.cx (320050403952-0001@[217.224.168.238]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16YFpj-0dk7G4C; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:21:07 +0100 Received: from elevation.zuhause.stoert.net (elevation.zuhause.stoert.net [192.168.66.46]) by spirit.corecode.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g160L5g82116; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:21:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode@elevation.zuhause.stoert.net) Received: (from corecode@localhost) by elevation.zuhause.stoert.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g160L1q04886; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:21:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:20:52 +0100 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: Terry Lambert Cc: bright@mu.org, silby@silby.com, bde@zeta.org.au, mime@traveller.cz, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: stack alignment issues Message-Id: <20020206012052.4b1ee3d2.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3C5F1AEB.2946887D@mindspring.com> References: <20020205043744.G23848-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020204120547.B2144-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020204101118.A12744@elvis.mu.org> <3C5F1AEB.2946887D@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws21 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.4Y62Wvn88vLK9z" X-Sender: 320050403952-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.4Y62Wvn88vLK9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:36:11 -0800 Terry Lambert wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Well, if Linux aligns the initial stack, the chance that gcc will > > > have auto-alignment added sounds to be about zero. You might as > > > well go ahead with your patch when you get a chance. > > > > I agree, either way we should try to optimized the current > > situation, especially if it seems to give a 2x perf boost! > > How about "aligning the initial stack"? i think this is a good idea (besides trying to optimize gcc). and it shouldn't be too hard to accomplish this (i don't know the code for rtld, but it really shouldn't be too hard to do this) unfortunately i don't have time ATM otherwise i'd look into this cheerz corecode -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --=.4Y62Wvn88vLK9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8YHbtr5S+dk6z85oRAsN+AKCx12SVJlp8Pew4o2Gv+sN9oohSUACgo+M1 3YdvNP6yAnBYq9IV7HgJm5E= =H70j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.4Y62Wvn88vLK9z-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message