On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:58:12PM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: > What I don't agree with is aligning the _whole_stack_, from top down > through the whole function hierarchy. It is a waste of space and > processing time. Very few functions in a typical environment will > actually call 16-byte SSE instructions, and even fewer ones will operate > on the stack instead of allocated heap memory.
What I mean is: It is all right to use stack alignment on the application level. But it is fatal to enforce it in the standard libraries, causing any non- conforming application to crash. If would be sufficient to align the stack only in the entry points of libraries which really need it. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
