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Bug#780430: qtwebkit-opensource-src: port to m68k



On Sep 11 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Because m68k has a default alignment of 16-bit, not 32-bit. Hence sizes of
> structs often differ. It's part of the SysV ABI on Linux/m68k.

Actually, the SysV ABI for m68k defines a 4-byte alignment for int, but
Linux/m68k doesn't use (all of) the SysV ABI for historical reasons.

> I would be in favor of changing it to 32-bit, but I guess upstream
> wouldn't be too much amused about that.

That would be a whole new ABI.

Andreas.

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