https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111107
--- Comment #31 from LIU Hao <lh_mouse at 126 dot com> --- (In reply to Gabriel Ivăncescu from comment #30) > Why would it not be safe? For MinGW specifically, what's not safe about it? > The entire Windows stack assumes only 4-byte alignment for i386, because > that's what MSVC provides. So interoperability with MSVC code (including > Windows DLLs or 3rd party libraries) means that anything that requires > stricter alignment *MUST* realign the stack, or else it would break. > > Therefore it should be completely safe for Windows i386 target. There's code that expects `__attribute__((__force_align_arg_pointer__))` to align the stack to 16-byte boundaries. https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-April/682180.html
