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



On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 12:09 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > What about kernel/userland compatibility?
> > 
> > What about it? This is about userland.
> 
> So you don't change the syscall/ioctl/... ABI?

I wasn't really planning on changing this. I just want to fix a longstanding
issue which has caused endless hours of wasted developer time to address them.

> > > > 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.

Well, we can just fix them on the go. If I see Debian packages FTBFS with 4 bytes
alignment, I can just fix them. So far I have not run into any package that did
not build with 4 bytes alignment but plenty that built with it.

Adrian

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