It was very obviously your decision to use 2 byte alignment even though it was against the official SVR4 ABI ;-).No, I followed the official ABI.
People here are clearly talking about the Unix SVR4 ABI. It's not clever to start talking about the Linux ABI without saying you're now talking about something other than what everyone else was talking about.
I've suggested rolling this in to the ABI change that'll address Y2038. I think, although you're not abundantly clear, that you advocate for that change to not be made, too. Is that the case? Should Linux/m68k just have the wrong time after 2038? Please be clear.
If you think that change is OK, then is there good technical reasoning you can think of to not roll this change in at the same time?
John