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Re: [thockin@cobaltnet.com] libc/1206: thread stack is misaligned on mips

Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:

|> 1999-07-16  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
| >
|> 	* internals.h: Align _pthread_descr_struct to 32
|> 	bytes.  We need to align it to 16 bytes for MIPS64 and 8 bytes
|> 	for MIPS, 32 bytes might give better cache utilization.
|> 	Reported by Tim Hockin <thockin@cobaltnet.com>, closes PR
|> 	libc/1206.

Just a note: such comments (I'm refering to the second sentence) are
better to be put in the code, not the ChangeLog.  Everything should be
understandable just by reading the code, even if the ChangeLogs are
missing.

Andreas.

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