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

Hi Adrian,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 11:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 09:40 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > 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? ;-)
>
> What's keeping us from creating an ABI v2 using either e_ident or e_flags from the ELF
> header so that we can fix also all the other packages that don't work like Javascript?
>
> If MIPS can have a plethora of updated ABIs and even POWER got an ELF ABI v2, why should
> that not be possible on m68k?

IBM annual gross profit for 2024 was $35.552B.

> > Is this a Rust issue, or an LLVM issue?
>
> https://github.com/M680x0/M680x0-mono-repo/issues/10

So you mean it's an LLVM issue.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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