Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:50:58 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.m68k,gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k,gmane.linux.ports.m68k
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On Sat, 2025-06-07 at 11:58 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jun 07 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 
> > Who is "we"? The official(!) ABI says that pointers are supposed to be aligned
> > with 4 bytes, not 2 bytes.
> 
> No, that is wrong.  The official ABI uses 2 byte alignment.

The official AT&T SysV ABI states that pointers must be aligned with 4 bytes.

See: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/m68k-sysv-abi.pdf (page 29)

Adrian

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