Re: question regarding stack size allocation

From: Raymond Martineau (bk039_at_ncf.ca)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:39:28 -0500

On 29 Dec 2004 21:07:37 -0800, "ronjon" <ronjoo@gmail.com> wrote:

>I am trying to corelate C code and its associated
>assembly code produced by gcc. In particular,I am
>trying to figure out how the stack pointer increments
>during variable initialization inside a function call.

You are better off asking thefollowing newsgroups:
- news:comp.lang.asm.x86 (x86 assembly language programming)
- news:gnu.gcc (The gcc free C compiler)

>
>I am unable to figure out the pattern in which the
>stack size is incremented above.
>I know this has something to do with word addressing
>in intel processors but the values(of stack pointer
>displacement) dont make sense to me.

It certainly doesn't look like expected behaviour from the compiler.
However, something like this is more suitable on the newsgroups posted
above (ot if it happens to be a bug with the compiler, the maintainers of
gcc.)

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