pthreads-win32 2.8.0, stack alignment, and SSE code
Sébastien Kunz-Jacques
kunzjacq@yahoo.fr
Thu Oct 9 19:51:00 GMT 2008
Ross Johnson a écrit :
> I've just read this whole thread for the first time. I haven't come
> across this issue of alignment on Intel processors before so I thought
> I'd better at least Google around the subject before replying.
> Unfortunately I've got to run now and won't be reading mail for
> another 5 days or so.
>
> I would very likely include the patch as a build option, so I'm
> wondering if you've tried building the library with the -mstackrealign
> gcc flag that does the same thing as force_align_arg_pointer (I
> haven't tried either of these but read about it).
>
> Ross
>
>
I haven't tried it, but will do it shortly. Since this realigns the
stack in all functions, it may impact performance. I would think this
impact is small to negligible however.
SKJ
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