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Re: guaranteed misalignment


marc@laendle writes:

> >Description:
> I believe the change
> 
> 1998-03-06 17:04  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>,
>         * sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: Don't call main directly, call
>         __libc_start_main instead.
> 
> Breaks stack alignment on x86 by misaligning the stack on a non-8-byte
> boundary.

In the current development version we have yet another word puhed to
the stack so that the alignment is ok.

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