https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95237

--- Comment #11 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> ---
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, hjl.tools at gmail dot com wrote:

> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95237
> 
> --- Comment #10 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
> (In reply to rguent...@suse.de from comment #9)
> 
> > > The i386 psABI specifies 4 byte alignment for long long.  But we want to
> > > use 8 byte alignment if there is no ABI implication and no stack 
> > > realignment
> > > is needed.  Will ROUND_TYPE_ALIGN always align long long to 8 bytes?
> > 
> > So what we want here is RTL expansion pad out stack slots if they know
> > to be aligned but not adjust DECL_ALIGN.  Not sure if there's already
> > a target hook to pad out variables, if not this may be the way to get
> > what you desire here.
> > 
> > I guess the actual reason is crossing of cache-lines?
> 
> If the incoming stack is 4 byte aligned, we can't align long long to
> 8 bytes without stack realignment.

I understand.  But if the stack is 4 byte aligned only and we don't
to stack realignment we may not claim long long is 8 bytes aligned.

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