/* * Copyright (c) 2001 Matteo Frigo * Copyright (c) 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA * */ /* $Id: aligned-main.c,v 1.7 2006-01-05 03:04:27 stevenj Exp $ */ #include "bench.h" int aligned_main(int argc, char *argv[]) { #if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__i386__) /* * horrible hack to align the stack to a 16-byte boundary. * * We assume a gcc version >= 2.95 so that * -mpreferred-stack-boundary works. Otherwise, all bets are * off. However, -mpreferred-stack-boundary does not create a * stack alignment, but it only preserves it. Unfortunately, * many versions of libc on linux call main() with the wrong * initial stack alignment, with the result that the code is now * pessimally aligned instead of having a 50% chance of being * correct. */ { /* * Use alloca to allocate some memory on the stack. * This alerts gcc that something funny is going * on, so that it does not omit the frame pointer * etc. */ (void)__builtin_alloca(16); /* * Now align the stack pointer */ __asm__ __volatile__ ("andl $-16, %esp"); # ifdef FFTW_DEBUG_ALIGNMENT /* pessimally align the stack, in order to check whether the stack re-alignment hacks in FFTW3 work */ __asm__ __volatile__ ("addl $-4, %esp"); # endif } #endif #ifdef __ICC /* Intel's compiler for ia32 */ { /* * Simply calling alloca seems to do the right thing. * The size of the allocated block seems to be irrelevant. */ _alloca(16); } #endif return bench_main(argc, argv); }