Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int
Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
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Hi Adrian, On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 12:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 11:58 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And I also don't understand why this is even an issue. If someone insists > > > on using 2 bytes alignment, just stick to your old chroot. If you're not > > > > What about kernel/userland compatibility? > > What about it? This is about userland. So you don't change the syscall/ioctl/... ABI? > > > interested in new, "fancy" packages, just don't upgrade or install Debian > > > Etch or similar. Changing the default alignment does not affect existing > > > software. > > > > What about existing software that is aware the minimum alignment is > > 2-bytes on m68k? > > Can you name some cases? I would love to add these to my list. Unfortunately not. Grepping for __mc68000__ may find some. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds