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This is needed to conform to AAPCS, the procedure call standard for the ARM. It wastes stack space. The option also enforces alignment of stack upon exception entry on Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 (ARMv7-M). Note that for ARMv6-M, ARMv8-M, and Cortex-M7 MCUs stack alignment on exception entry is enabled by default and it is not configurable.

Direct dependencies¶

!ARM64 && ARM

(Includes any dependencies from ifs and menus.)

Default¶

y

Kconfig definition¶

At <Zephyr>/arch/arm/core/aarch32/Kconfig:111

Included via <Zephyr>/Kconfig:8 → <Zephyr>/Kconfig.zephyr:29 → <Zephyr>/arch/Kconfig:12 → <Zephyr>/arch/arm/Kconfig:42

Menu path: (Top) → ARM Options

config STACK_ALIGN_DOUBLE_WORD
    bool "Align stacks on double-words (8 octets)"
    default y
    depends on !ARM64 && ARM
    help
      This is needed to conform to AAPCS, the procedure call standard for
      the ARM. It wastes stack space. The option also enforces alignment
      of stack upon exception entry on Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 (ARMv7-M).
      Note that for ARMv6-M, ARMv8-M, and Cortex-M7 MCUs stack alignment
      on exception entry is enabled by default and it is not configurable.

(The ‘depends on’ condition includes propagated dependencies from ifs and menus.)