Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.m68k,gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.user
Message-ID <f1f9bcd9fe3823935e747748f09bcf88cfc4d947.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:14 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz via Libc-help:
> 
> > I was just looking at the necessary changes to switch m68k to 32-bit alignment
> > and I'm not sure we need to do anything about glibc. I am documenting my current
> > findings here [1].
> 
> > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Alignment
> 
> Why doesn't this change need a new target triple?  This change alters
> struct layout (it introduces new padding in some cases), so it's quite
> incompatible with what we have today.

My argument is that Linux/m68k is a pure hobbyist project and anyone involved
can deal with the changes coming from the alignment change.

Introducing a new triplet would mean having to accommodate for that in other
projects which only know "m68k-(unknown-)linux-gnu.

Adrian

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