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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] align signal-frame even when not using alternate signal-stack
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:34:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12071.1131003288@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051103064019.5B552B3421@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:40:19 -0800 (PST), 
davidm@mail.mostang.com (David Mosberger-Tang) wrote:
>At the moment, attempting to invoke a signal-handler on the normal
>stack is guaranteed to fail if the stack-pointer happens not to be
>16-byte aligned.

Itanium Software Conventions and Runtime Architecture Guide, section
7.1 says that the stack pointer must always be aligned on a 16 byte
boundary.  What software is not using 16 byte alignment for the stack?


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-03  6:40 [patch] align signal-frame even when not using alternate signal-stack David Mosberger-Tang
2005-11-03  7:34 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2005-11-03 18:20 ` David Mosberger-Tang

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