New optimized string routines for Intel and alignment of stack.

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/2016 01:51 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>> Besides string routines, do we have any C code that relies on stack
>> alignment
>> on 32-bit x86?
>
>
> Perhaps not today, but unless we change the ABI to the original definition,
> GCC is free to exploit the stack alignment for optimization purposes in the
> future.
>

The boat has sailed with the current i386 psABI:

https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/X86-psABI


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H.J.