align stack to 16 bytes for SSE on i386

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Sat Feb 3 13:30:00 GMT 2001


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > We should align the stack to a 16-byte boundary for SSE.
> > 
> > Ok to commit?
> 
> Iff 16 byte alignment is really needed.

According to the Pentium 4 documentation: Yes.

I'll commit it now,
Andreas
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