Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int
On Tue, 20 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > As for gccgo, has that ever worked on m68k?
>
> Yes.
>
Why is an ABI change needed to get it to work again?
> > Other language runtimes work fine on the m68k ABI. Why is Rust
> > special?
>
> You mean other languages such as JavaScript, Go, Java, Python and
> WebKit?
>
> No, they don't work fine on m68k.
>
Python works -- you patched it yourself! -- it doesn't need a special ABI.
As for the Java runtime etc. I've never tried to install them on m68k but
I know they were ported to a variety of ABIs with a variety of alignment
rules, that do not guarantee natural alignment of integer types.
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