Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263762AbUDGQuU (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:50:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263778AbUDGQuU (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:50:20 -0400 Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.157]:35812 "EHLO zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263762AbUDGQuP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:50:15 -0400 Message-ID: <40743110.8000306@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:49:20 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Paul Wagland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gktnews@gktech.net Subject: Re: amd64 questions References: <1Ijzw-4ff-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <1Ijzv-4ff-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <1IntE-7wn-39@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 564 Lines: 15 Andi Kleen wrote: > The problem is always the long long alignment. AMD64/IA64 have different > alignment for long long than i386. The emulation was originally tested > on some RISC port, where the alignment is the same. What about a compiler flag to emit i386 code with the more strenuous long long alignment? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/