On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:55:20AM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: > As Bill wrote earlier, 2 * POINTER_SIZE causes a different performance > regression for 16 byte alignment on PPC64. 8 bytes is a work-around > for now.
I was talking about the config/linux.h definition, PPC64 can of course
override it to workaround something temporarily, but because there is some
problem on PPC64 we shouldn't penalize code say on x86_64, s390x or aarch64.
Jakub
