[gambit-list] compiling fib
Bradley Lucier
lucier at math.purdue.edu
Fri Jan 21 15:05:14 EST 2011
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 14:47 -0500, Marc Feeley wrote:
> Let me add that gcc (at least on the Mac) also pads stack frames on
> multiples of 16 bytes. If you write assembly code that doesn't align
> properly and that calls a C library function, the code will crash.
I wasn't precise enough; I meant the extra cost is in the three words
added to each stack frame that is used only by the GC for continuation
frames that are captured by call/cc. Is this correct?
Brad
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