Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:08:07PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> I think we have some inline functions that do asm volatile ("call
> ..."), and I don't see any credible way of forcing alignment short of
> generating an entirely new stack frame and aligning that.  Ick.  This

A straight asm call from C should always work because gcc keeps
the stack aligned in the prologue.

The only problem with inline assembly is when you start pushing
things onto the stack directly.

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