Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k
On Thu, 2025-06-12 at 11:54 +1000, Finn Thain 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.
This is old documentation, I'm not sure why you think this is an argument.
> Debian needs to fix this, so that those users/developers who are
> interested in small systems can colaborate effectively without being
> mislead.
Debian doesn't owe anyone anything. There a number of people who work on
Debian Ports in their free time and they are free to decide how they spend
their free time. Your arguments are really getting desperate.
It's also absurd that you think that switching the alignment to 4 bytes will
make the port considerably slower when the contrary is the case and NetBSD
developers on this thread have explained several times that they don't have
any issues with 4 bytes alignment. Heck, even Amiga Unix uses 4 bytes alignment.
Adrian
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