Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:47:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Stack Alignment
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> > You are correct.  The stack is aligned in crt0.s
> This is certainly a more elegant and simple place to put the fix.  
> The only downside to it is that it requires crt1.c to be compiled
> with -mstack-align-double enabled as well (which is only available
> in pgcc, egcs and gcc don't have it).

Could you please explain why -mstack-align-double is necessary when
compiling crt1.c?  I don't understand this, possibly because I don't
know what does that switch do exactly.