Ian Lance Taylor writes: > Andrew Haley <aph-gcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Geer Bosch asked "Can't we just explicitly align the stack frame to > > 128-bits during the function prologue, when we know that there are > > locals that require such alignment?" This seems so obvious that I > > can't understand why it hasn't been done. > > If you don't trust your startup code, use -mstackrealign or the > force_align_arg_pointer function attribute. > > We don't do it by default because it is slower and most people don't > need it. This doesn't make any sense to me. From what people have been saying here, using -Os *dealigns* the stack pointer, causing programs using SSE etc to fail. Do we seriously want this to happen? Is -Os supposed silently to break programs? Andrew.
