Reserve an area of memory before the start of each function. If fix is specified, the compiler will reserve the amount of space required by fix and continue. This is the first default. If either patch or no value is specified, the compiler will reserve a platform-specific default value. A value of -xpatchpadding=0 will reserve 0 bytes of space. The maximum value for size on x86 is 127 bytes and on SPARC is 2048 bytes.