On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW this is with Debian gcc 4.7.2 which does not allow an 8-byte > stack alignment as attempted by the Makefile:
I'm pretty sure we have random asm code that may not maintain a
16-byte stack alignment when it calls other code (including, in some
cases, calling C code).
So I'm not at all convinced that this is a good idea. We shouldn't
expect 16-byte alignment to be something trustworthy.
Linus

