Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:10:56 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199801111910.OAA25392@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980111142539.15603C-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:25:59 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: Stack Alignment
Precedence: bulk


> Note that the patch doesn't align on a 8-byte boundary, only on a
> 4-byte one.  So it is not meant to make the DJGPP stack compatible
> with align-double.

The patch that was sent in was for 4-bytes, but I made it 8-bytes in
the alpha, since I already knew about the pgcc issue.

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel/v2/.alphas/980101/djlsr202.zip/src/libc/crt0/crt0.s

        movw    %ds, %dx                /* set stack */
        movw    %dx, %ss
>>>     andb    $0xf8, %eax             /* align to 8-byte boundary */
        movl    %eax, %esp