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libc: Fix the alignment of the TCB to match rtld for several architectures.
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Authored by jhb on Dec 8 2021, 9:52 PM.
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Summary
  • Use 16 byte alignment rather than 8 for aarch64, powerpc64, and RISC-V.
  • Use 8 byte alignment rather than 4 for 32-bit arm, mips, and powerpc.

I suspect that mips64 should be using 16 byte alignment, but both libc
and rtld currently use 8 byte alignment.

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