Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 12:09 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > What about kernel/userland compatibility? > > > > What about it? This is about userland. > > So you don't change the syscall/ioctl/... ABI? I wasn't really planning on changing this. I just want to fix a longstanding issue which has caused endless hours of wasted developer time to address them. > > > > 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. Well, we can just fix them on the go. If I see Debian packages FTBFS with 4 bytes alignment, I can just fix them. So far I have not run into any package that did not build with 4 bytes alignment but plenty that built with it. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913