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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Cc: Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa?] Add frame_align(); Was: ARM stack alignment on hand  called functions
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE633E1.7060900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211280926.gAS9QJE06150@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>

>> +/* Ensure that the ARM's stack pointer has the correct alignment for a
>> +   new frame.  */
>> +static CORE_ADDR
>> +arm_frame_align (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, CORE_ADDR addr)
>> +{
>> +  return (addr & -16);
>> +}
> 
> 
> Yuck, two's complement assumption.  I much prefer ~0xf in this case.
> 
> But why so much.  The maximum stack alignment you'll see on an ARM is 8 
> bytes.

The function was lifted from the PPC code.  And, hey, what's a few extra 
bytes between friends? :-)

Does (addr & 0x7) look better?

Andrew



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-28 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200211270917.gAR9HNE29771@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>
2002-11-27 10:43 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-28  1:26   ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-11-28  2:20     ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-28  2:41       ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-11-28  2:45         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-28  2:57           ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-11-28  5:52         ` Keith Walker
2002-11-28  7:34           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-28  7:19     ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-11-28  8:33       ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-11-28  8:45         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-11-28  8:50           ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-11-28  9:00             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29  5:19               ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-29 14:50                 ` Kris Warkentin

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