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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: stack alignment issues
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > foo:
> > 	pushl %ebp
> > 	movl %esp,%ebp
> > 	subl $8,%esp		# <- extra instruction for alignment (for foo)
> > 	addl $-12,%esp		# <- extra instruction for alignment (for f1)
>
> What disgusting code.  I find it amazing that they didn't even stick in
> some peephole optimizer to at least limit it to one operation.

It's clearly the result of work in progress :-).

Bruce


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