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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:30:28 -0500
From: JimF <jfoug@....net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Large stack alignment
On 9/6/2015 12:16 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> That's great, but I think there's still performance impact potential:
> all those individual pointers may need their own registers, whereas
> without such per-pointer alignment gcc would simply address everything
> relative to a single frame pointer register.
>
> Alexander
Could this be handled with a union, where you define all of the arrays
in that union, and then simply move the whole thing forward X number of
bytes? Or would this cause a double access, first to access the pointer
of the union, then to offset from that pointer to find the element (then
possibly a 3rd to access offset within that buffer) ?
If not, then turning
type buf1[X];
type buf2[Y];
into
typedef struct {type buf1[x]; type buf2[Y]} buftype;
char _buf[sizeof(buftype)+align];
buftype *buf = mem_align(_buf, align);
How does that look? Yes, now we have to change all buf1[x] into buf->buf1[x] but do you see this as just compiler eye candy, or is there still compiler performance issues here ?
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