GCC 12.1 Released

Posted May 9, 2022 12:03 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: GCC 12.1 Released by hmh
Parent article: GCC 12.1 Released

You may be confusing with stack alignment. The x86-64 ABI promises 16-byte stack alignment, and if some function failed to preserve that everything broke because GCC used aligned-access instructions on the stack.