Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:28:19 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
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Subject:	Re: Stack alignment
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On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jan Hubicka wrote:

> Also about binutils alignment.. I believe alignment is set to prety
> low number there..

The subsection alignment is 4 bytes in current port of Binutils.

> next (after 2.95) version will need 32 byte alignment for AMD-K6 code
> (to fit well into cache lines)

I believe we are heading for 16-byte alignment for the next version of
Binutils.  This should be enough for all processors, including AMD-K6,
since the prefetch queues fetch on 16-byte boundaries.  Is there
something in AMD-K6 that makes this not good enough?

Anyway, as long as GCC doesn't align the code on 32-byte boundary by
default, there's not much sense in aligning subsections on 32-byte
boundary, is there?

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