Pankaj Kohli writes: > I wrote a simple C program to test the memory allocation for local > variables. But when i try to disassemble the program using gdb, it > shows that 16 bytes are being reserved for local variables on the > stack, although i declared a single integer variable which is supposed > to take only 4 bytes. > Can anyone tell, why it is reserving 16 bytes on the stack for just a > single variable ? This question was asked on the kernel list on May 19, 2007. Please find the answer at http://kerneltrap.org/node/8236 Andrew.
