From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
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Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:38:16 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> sat on
a tribble, which squeaked:

>The purpose of that is to keep the stack aligned to a 32 byte
>boundary, which improves performance on today's high-end processors.

Modern processors care about alignments as large as *256 bits*!? 64
bits for doubles or for ints on 64 bit chips, I figured, but 256!?


-- 
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"There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980
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