Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:40:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The 8-byte alignment mainly makes sense when the basic call sequence
just adds 8 bytes, and you have functions without frames (that still
call other functions).

The question is does it really make sense to save those 8 bytes
of padding on x86-64 when arm64 apparently also requires 16-byte
stack alignment.

Cheers,
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