Geert Uytterhoeven dixit:
>In the past, there's been discussions about changing the alignment of
>32-bit quantities
>to 4 bytes (as on most other architectures) and reserving a register for TLS
>at the same time, as both break the ABI.
Ah, ok, sounds possible then. So, the question is whether it would
be preferable to align *all* 32-bit dwords to 4 bytes or just these
which need it. Simplicity/reliability vs. memory usage…
I wonder what the effects would be on typical things, say the libc,
/bin/date, a shell, maybe libperl, and something using TLS.
Groeten terug,
//mirabilos
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