Re: CONUNDRUM.

Clive Messer (clive@epos.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 13 Feb 1997 02:10:42 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Systemkennung Linux wrote:

> > > First guess Alexey. Linux crt0.s doesnt align the stack on an eight byte
> > > boundary.
> >
> > Any reason why it shouldn't? Could this simple thing case a >10%
> > performance drop for some applications? If so why wasn't this noticed and
> > fixed long ago?
>
> Alan's first guess makes sense in that the Fortran people have been
> complaining about exactly that problem for quite some time.

I just noticed in HJ's libc Changelog, 5.4.21-5.4.22 .......

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Wed Jan 29 20:50:53 1997 H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)

* sysdeps/linux/i386/crt/crt0.S: align stack to 8 bytes.
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Clive.

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