Misaligned stack on 32-bit s390?

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Nov 11 16:33:00 GMT 2014


Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> As I understand it an alignment fix is only required if _dl_skip_args is
> odd.  So what about
> checking the least significant bit (tmll) and copying argv/envv down by 4
> bytes? That way we would
> not need to copy anything in 50% of the cases?

I don't think it makes sense optimizing for this case, which is rare
outside of runing the glibc testsuite.

Andreas.

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