On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 07:33:35PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 16:03:02, roam (Peter Pentchev) wrote about "Re: function
>calls/rets in assembly":
>
> > I wonder if a mentioning of -mpreferred-stack-boundary should be
> > added to tuning(7)..
>
> This will be quite strange idea. Tuning which reduces 2-4 times stack size
> of userland application... hm... corporations spend years and millions $$
> to reach such effect... should man page say "first at all, add the right
> option to /etc/make.conf and rebuild the whole userland, because gcc
> is written by morons and we are too lazy or stupid to remove their ugly
> crap"?
> Matt Dillon is right that the best variant is to exclude this
> brain-damaged option at all.
> If gcc team wants to implement proper
> alignment to work with SSE and other high-specialized stuff,
> they should learn commands for bitwise AND, and use only where really needed.
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