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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