On 4/10/08 4:14 AM, "Jonathan Kinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> The alignment of the stack seems to be something gcc specific. Perhaps
>> we need/want it on ppc-mac as well? Jon, can we use the aligned gcc
>> attribute instead like in sse.h:
>
> This was added to get around a bug in gcc that miss-aligns the stack of new
> threads. It might work ok on Mac's... So just don't define GCC_ALIGN_HACK
> and see if it the sse code crashes (this is the code that relies on an aligned
> stack).
>
This is what I thought. PPC doesn't have SSE support (It uses Altivec) so
this hack likely doesn't apply to any processor not supporting SSE?
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