unlike other archs, the mips version of clone was not doing anything to align the stack pointer. this seems to have been the cause for some SIGBUS crashes that were observed in posix_spawn.
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
.type __clone,@function
__clone:
# Save function pointer and argument pointer on new thread stack
+ and $5, $5, -8
subu $5, $5, 16
sw $4, 0($5)
sw $7, 4($5)