Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs)

Thorsten Glaser
2011-02-08T22:48:32Z

Andreas Schwab dixit:

>>>On m68k, every object by default is at most aligned to a 2 byte
>>>boundary. That's a heritage of the original Sun m68000 compiler, which
>>>served as the template for the gcc configuration for Linux/m68k when the
>>>porting started.
>>
>> Ah, from there. I think it might violate the SYSV ABI, funnily
>> enough (which I've peeked into in order to port elfutils when
>> bored again). Oh the history ;)
>
>I looked into fixing that when I ported m68k from a.out to ELF.
>Unfortunately, that would have broken a big part of the syscall/ioctl
>ABI, so I had to scratch that.

Ah, I understand. I had the breakage in MirBSD with time_t…
so I don't think anyone could blame you ;)

Nice to know, though. I'll update places like the Debian Wiki.

bye,
//mirabilos
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