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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 19:39 +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> Qt is an optional dependency of cmake, subject to USE=gui on Gentoo, as it 
> should be. If that dep is required by Debian, that's a distro problem, not 
> an ABI problem.

I'm talking about Debian, not Gentoo. And as you admit here, you have to
cripple functionality to make it work which is not what I am interested in.

But if you're using Gentoo anyway, I don't understand what you are even
complaining about. As you heard, Gentoo wants to introduce a new tuple for
the change.

Thus, you can continue to use Gentoo with 16-bit alignment just fine and let
anyone else who needs 32-bit alignment move on.

> As for gccgo, has that ever worked on m68k?

Yes.

> > Furthermore, more and more packages are being ported to Rust which means 
> > m68k will either die a long death or have to switch to 4 bytes 
> > alignment.
> > 
> 
> Other language runtimes work fine on the m68k ABI. Why is Rust special?

You mean other languages such as JavaScript, Go, Java, Python and WebKit?

No, they don't work fine on m68k.

Adrian

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