Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86emul: correct DECLARE_ALIGNED()

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 16.03.17 at 14:09, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16/03/17 13:05, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Stop creating an excessively large array on the stack, by properly
>> taking into account the array element size when establishing its
>> element count (and of course also when calculating the pointer to
>> be actually used to access the memory).
> 
> What in practice does this do?  It looks like it reduces the size of the
> array by 4 or 8 times?

Correct - it was this much oversized, bloating the stack frame of the
function quite a bit.

Jan


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