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@ -638,7 +638,37 @@ CXX="g++ -m32 -mstackrealign" \
<para>Adding the <literal>-mstackrealign</literal> flag helps to
overcome issues with old binaries which cannot be recompiled
on the actual OS.</para>
on the actual OS. Those issues were reported for
<application>Steam</application>.</para>
<!-- Thanks to xry111 for explaining the technical background: -->
<para>Today the x86-32 SysV psABI (used by all Linux programs)
mandates a 16-byte alignment of the stack frame, so the routines
using SSE will save/load SSE vectors onto/from the stack using a
<literal>movaps</literal> instruction (which only works with
aligned addresses, but faster than its counterpart allowing
unaligned addresses, <literal>movups</literal>).</para>
<para>But some really old x86-32 Linux binaries (compiled about
15 years ago), and all Windows x86-32 binaries only aligns the
stack frame to 4-byte. Thus, when it calls a SSE routine in LFS
built without <literal>-mstackrealign</literal>, the
<literal>movdqa</literal> instruction fails with a General
Protection Error and the Linux kernel terminates the process
with a SIGSEGV.</para>
<para>It is not clear why this seems to be an issue with Glibc only.
<command>gcc -m32</command> does <emphasis>not</emphasis> turn off SSE (because
it means "building a 32-bit program for x86_64" instead of
"building a program for i686," and all x86_64 CPU have SSE), so
every library can use SSE. <application>Steam</application> has
an issue here, but <application>Wine</application> has not.
Maybe <application>Wine</application> evades the issue by building
most libraries as Windows DLLs using <application>mingw-gcc</application> (which enables
<literal>-mstackrealign</literal> by default) instead of relying
on the system library, but it still uses the system libc.</para>
<para>In theory, the <literal>-mstackrealign</literal> should be
applied for all m32 libraries but actually, the only issue
reported so far can be fixed by adding it to glibc in the above
command only.</para>
<para>Compile the package:</para>