Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:11:18 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>, hackers@freebsd.org, greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: stack alignment issues Message-ID: <20020204101118.A12744@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020204120547.B2144-100000@patrocles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:07:11PM %2B0000 References: <20020205043744.G23848-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020204120547.B2144-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
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* Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> [020204 10:04] wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michal Mertl wrote: > > > > > Did you look at the patch by Bruce at > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freebsd-current/message/39605 ? > > > > > > Bruce, is it still fresh in your memory? Can you comment on the patch - > > > can it be commited in some form? > > > > I haven't done anything to clean up the patch. I hope the problem > > will go away in future versions of gcc (align the stack at runtime in > > the few routines that actually need it). > > > > Bruce > > 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! -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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