On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> > For structures, not array elements or stack objects. Does gcc now get
> > aligned correct as an attribute on a stack object ?
>
> I think m68k stack layout still guarantees 4-byte-alignment, no?
The stack pointer must be even (i.e. 2 byte-alignment).
But it looks like current gcc always allocates multiples of 4 bytes on
the stack, probably for performance reasons.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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