Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k
On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> There is a clear difference between architectures that are actively used
> in production as compared to architectures that are used for hobbyists
> projects only.
>
Regarding the Linux/m68k effort, that claim is unsupported (and
unsupportable, AFAICS).
If you're just talking about Debian/m68k, it's really up to you how you
will use it to add value.
> We couldn't push such changes on x86_64, for example, because there is
> huge worldwide userbase meaning that introducing such an ABI-breaking
> change would come at a huge cost. On m68k, on the other hand, the user
> base is so small and insignificant
> that the costs for introducing the change are negligible and the profits
> for making the change strongly outweigh the disadvantages.
>
I find cost/benefit analyses to be useful. But how will you quantify this?
Moreover, you reduced Debian/m68k to insignificance when you characterized
all of its users as insignificant. As its maintainer, that's your
prerogative, I suppose.
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