Preventing gcc from aligning stack???

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.SGI.4.21.0001251219060.5519422-100000 en paju.oulu.fi>
By author:    Tuukka Toivonen <tutoivon en mail.student.oulu.fi>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I'd like to ask, why? Even double is only 8 bytes. Does this mean that 12
> bytes is wasted each argumentless call and -fno-omit-frame-pointer, for
> saving ebp?
> 

The native fp format on IA32 is "long double" -- 80 bits (10 bytes).

    -hpa
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