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RE: stack align in multithread.c (was Re: [Bug-gnubg] OS/X check in)


From: Jonathan Kinsey
Subject: RE: stack align in multithread.c (was Re: [Bug-gnubg] OS/X check in)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:14:48 +0000

> From: address@hidden
>
> The alignment of the stack seems to be something gcc specific. Perhaps
> we need/want it on ppc-mac as well? Jon, can we use the aligned gcc
> attribute instead like in sse.h:

This was added to get around a bug in gcc that miss-aligns the stack of new 
threads.  It might work ok on Mac's...  So just don't define GCC_ALIGN_HACK and 
see if it the sse code crashes (this is the code that relies on an aligned 
stack).

Jon

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