SuperWord optimization

John Rose John.Rose at Sun.COM
Sat Jan 10 12:19:53 PST 2009


Did you look at StackAlignmentInBytes?  Ideally, that should impose a  
global invariant on JVM-generated code.

Stack alignment is tricky to get right, since there are many places  
where it can go wrong.

-- John

On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:27 AM, James Walsh wrote:

> I am running into the stack not being aligned problem in the  
> register save/restore code.  Is there code in here somewhere that  
> maintains the 8byte stack alignment or is it hand coded into the  
> push/pop methods?
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