Number of bytes allocated for char arrays by subl %esp seems much too high (in linux 2.4, gcc 3.2.2

[Data Networking Course 6 <datanetworking6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I noticed that when I declare a buffer of, for example, char[5], the assembly code generated by gcc actually allocates a much larger buffer, in this case 24 bytes:

subl $24, %esp

How can this be explained?



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