Preventing gcc from aligning stack???

[Jamie Lokier]

Michael Meissner wrote:
> It doesn't matter which machine is chosen (the machine type only sets
> the default alignments).  I believe the original problem is for System
> V.4 targets (Linux ELF is a SVR4 target) in 2.7.2.3 did not set
> MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT, which meant that the compiler assumed that the
> maximum alignment was 4 or 8 bytes.  Under 2.95 and beyond, the
> compiler knows you can specify higher alignments.

I think this shows that most people are using GCC 2.95 to compile their
2.3 kernels.  So shouldn't Documentation/Changes be updated to reflect this?

-- Jamie

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