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

Hi Adrian,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 09:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 09:02 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 May 2025 at 04:15, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Should Linux maintain a 32 bit platform that has alignment issues because
> > > programmers make bad assumptions?
> >
> > Linux (the kernel) does maintain it, and bug fixes are backported
> > to stable trees.  The upstream kernel (outside the arch/m68k dir)
> > has no problem fixing whatever alignment issues that pop up.
>
> This might change in the future when Rust code becomes more dominant in the kernel.
>
> What's going to happen when Rust code becomes mandatory in key parts of the kernel
> and then we're unable to build it because we insisted on keeping the 2 byte ABI?

We fix Rust? ;-)

Is this a Rust issue, or an LLVM issue?
In case of the latter, how does llvm-mos handle this?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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