Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ??

[Marcel Moolenaar]

Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> 
> > What about commercial and/or third party KLDs? They fail to work if they
> > don't also set -preferred-stack-boundry=2, right?
> 
> Oops, I accidentally replied to this privately.
> 
> Anyhow, I'll repeat it here - stack alignment does *not* break
> link-compatibility.  It does not change calling conventions, it just
> adds padding after the args to ensure that local variables can be
> predictably aligned.

So, how does aligning stackframes affect the inherently static property
of code size then?

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