Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int
Hi Adrian,
On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 12:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 11:58 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > And I also don't understand why this is even an issue. If someone insists
> > > on using 2 bytes alignment, just stick to your old chroot. If you're not
> >
> > What about kernel/userland compatibility?
>
> What about it? This is about userland.
So you don't change the syscall/ioctl/... ABI?
> > > interested in new, "fancy" packages, just don't upgrade or install Debian
> > > Etch or similar. Changing the default alignment does not affect existing
> > > software.
> >
> > What about existing software that is aware the minimum alignment is
> > 2-bytes on m68k?
>
> Can you name some cases? I would love to add these to my list.
Unfortunately not.
Grepping for __mc68000__ may find some.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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