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

Hi Geert,

On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 11:58 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 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?

I just remembered that I actually asked the NetBSD people about that and they
said that they didn't run into any problems. In fact, here is a directory with
more than 5500 packages built for NetBSD/m68k with 4 bytes alignment:

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/10.0_2024Q3/All/

So, I think we're safe in this regard. There are certainly going to be a few cases
where packages may need to be patched. But I would assume these to be rather rare.

Adrian

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