<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div>



















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">my question is maybe not directly related with LLVM but general
with compilers. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The common approach is that compilers often don't align
stack pointer for leaf functions if the function utilizes stack just for
keeping variables of small sizes.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m wondering what is the benefit of such behavior.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Is saving a few bytes of the stack just once worth of such
approach?<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Or maybe something else stands behind it? Is there any other
potential benefit of unaligned Stack Pointer in Leaf Functions?<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks,<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Przemek<span></span></p>





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