Re: amd64 questions

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 11:52:00 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:

The problem is always the long long alignment. AMD64/IA64 have different
alignment for long long than i386. The emulation was originally tested
on some RISC port, where the alignment is the same.

What about a compiler flag to emit i386 code with the more strenuous long long alignment?

Chris
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