Patch to align local PowerPC AltiVec arrays

Andrew Pinski pinskia@gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 22:01:00 GMT 2011


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Wellander, Pat - Code Sourcery
<pwelland@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> This is my first patch submittal so constructive criticism is appreciated.
> This patch causes PowerPC AltiVec local stack arrays > 16 bytes to be
> aligned at 16 bytes.

Wait I thought the alignment of the stack is 16 bytes so this patch is
normally not needed except for the case where someone does not use
-mabi=altivect.



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