Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k
Hi,
On 14.6.2025 10.51, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Here's a list of almost 6000 software packages that build fine on m68k with
4 bytes alignment:
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0_2023Q4/All/
...
Exactly my point. It works on NetBSD, so I'm not worried about Linux.
I don't see in above dir e.g. LLVM or Qt, which were in the Debian
2-byte alignment problems list:
https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Alignment
Are those in some other place, do they have other problems besides the
2-byte alignment, or am I just blind?
(Many other less relevant packages from that Debian list seem also to be
missing from that NetBSD dir.)
- Eero
PS. I really appreciate your Debian m68k maintenance effort. As my
contributions for m68k are elsewhere (Hatari emulator, EmuTOS ROM for
Atari&Amiga, m68k SW profiling etc), and you were not interested about
profiling help at this stage, I naturally don't have any say on this.
But note that what Debian (and Gentoo) do, has also wider (indirect)
impact, so it's definitely of interest also for people who do not use
them regularly, or don't directly contribute to them, who e.g:
* do contribute to projects that Debian packages
* use only m68k cross-compiler and small subset of m68k packages
* appreciate Debian/Gentoo checking that latest toolchains & OSS SW in
general support m68k, and bugs are being filed about that
- those non-Debian people can then also look into / try fix those
bugs, e.g. when they update their toolchains next...
So please bear with us!
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