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Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k





On Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 19:12 Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

>
> I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. The fact that your
> computer is too slow for modern Linux distributions is unrelated to the
> alignment discussion.
>

Sorry, Adrian, but you can't have it both ways. Either you support small
systems or you don't. Debian's documentation says of m68k:

    This architecture covers Amigas and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0
    processor for x>=2; with MMU. However, the port is still active and
    available for installation even if not a part of this official stable
    release and might be reactivated for future releases.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/compatibility.en.html#arches

There is no mention of fast emulators. Yet that's all you're targeting
now.

Fixing pthreads would probably go a long way. That's where we lost about half of our performance.



Debian needs to fix this, so that those users/developers who are
interested in small systems can colaborate effectively without being
mislead.


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