Re: Question on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT in GCC on NetBSD/m68k

Hi Martin,

On Sun, 2025-06-08 at 13:47 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Since this thread also hit a non-Linux lists I just want to point
> out that we (as in: NetBSD) did not break userland when adapting the
> SVR4 ABI including different alignment for ELF.
> 
> I just tested it with some original 1994 NetBSD 1.0 / amiga binaries
> on an amiga running NetBSD-current as of earlier today.
> 
> (...)
> 
> So the 1.0 original release a.out binaries still work and a -current
> kernel provides the right data (with old alignment and 32bit time_t)
> for a stat(2) system call from 1994 using the a.out ABI.

Thanks a lot for answering this question. I was actually wondering whether
old a.out binaries would still run on current versions of NetBSD despite
the different alignment.

Adrian

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