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Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int



On Tue, 20 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 07:59 +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > My argument is that Linux/m68k is a pure hobbyist project and anyone 
> > > involved can deal with the changes coming from the alignment change.
> > > 
> > 
> > If hobbyists can deal with ABI breakage, they can certainly deal with the 
> > longstanding lack of fancy toolchains and toolkits*.
> 
> Being able to build the build dependencies of cmake or parts of GCC such
> as gccgo is not something I would consider "fancy".

Qt is an optional dependency of cmake, subject to USE=gui on Gentoo, as it 
should be. If that dep is required by Debian, that's a distro problem, not 
an ABI problem.

As for gccgo, has that ever worked on m68k?

> Furthermore, more and more packages are being ported to Rust which means 
> m68k will either die a long death or have to switch to 4 bytes 
> alignment.
> 

Other language runtimes work fine on the m68k ABI. Why is Rust special?


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