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Currently the compiler assumes that frame size is constant at compile time.

For x86_64, stack pointer needs to be 16-bytes aligned before a function call. The compiler ensures this by:

• rbp is always 16-bytes aligned.
• frame size is a multiple of 16-bytes (align up to 16-bytes if it is not, see frame.rs).
• if any call argument is passed on stack, if necessary, push a padding value to stack so that rsp is still 16-bytes aligned after pushing call arguments.
• restoring from an exception will set rsp from rbp and the constant frame size.

We can implement ALLOCA by computing allocating size during compile time, and frame size is still a compile-time constant. However, the implementation of ALLOCA_HYBRID will break this assumption. A straightforward solution is to make the alloca'd size always a multiple of 16-bytes (for alignment requirement), and record a current frame size somewhere (for restoring from exception) - this would keep most of the above unchanged. This issue tracks related discussion.