Thank you! Your explanation helps a lot. Best regards, --- Arturas Moskvinas <arturas.moskvinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is to make room for the parameters to > printf(); there are two, and > > each is a pointer, and hence four bytes, so the > total space required is > > eight bytes. > > I think you are not very correct in this part, if > you write simple > function which calls function without parameter, > you'll see that gcc > is also substract by 8 (12 if you use > -fomit-frame-pointer). Command > pushl substracts ESP pointer by 4 itself. So i think > gcc is trying to > align variable (and return address) in stack. > > > Arturas Moskvinas > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
