GCC - How to realign stack?

Question

I try to build an application which uses pthreads and __m128 SSE type. According to GCC manual, default stack alignment is 16 bytes. In order to use __m128, the requirement is t

Answer 1

I have solved this problem. Here is my solution:

void another_function(){
   __m128 y;
   ...
}
void *f(void *x){
asm("pushl    %esp");
asm("subl    $16,%esp");
asm("andl    $-0x10,%esp");
another_function();
asm("popl %esp");
}

First, we increase the stack by 16 bytes. Second, we make least-significant nibble equal 0x0. We preserve the stack pointer using push/pop operands. We call another function, which has all its own local variables 16-byte aligned. All nested functions will also have their local variables 16-byte aligned.

And It works!