On Monday 16 February 2004 10:11 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:52:16AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> > > Should I commit this?
> >
> > What effect does it have on non-i386 architectures?
>
> It can't possibly hurt. If the stack is already aligned on a "better"
> boundary (64 or 128 bytes), it is also aligned on a 32-byte boundary
> since 64 and 128 are multiples of 32, and the patch is a no-op. If
> only a 16-byte alignment is required, a 32-byte alignment wastes a
> small amount of memory but does not hurt performance. I believe that
> less-than-16 (and possibly even less-than-32) alignment is pessimal on
> all platforms we support.
I'm building world on my sparc64 just to be sure. Sorry, I didn't get to
work on this at all last night, but I should be able to post conclusive
results tonight, I just have to get through the rather long buildworld
while I'm at the office today.
Thank ${DEITY} for cheap, fast AMD machines. ;^)
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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