[Freemint-discuss] m68k alignment change in Debian/Gentoo

[Eero T. <oa...@he...>]

Hi,

Apparently both Debian/m68k and Gentoo/m68k are in process of switching 
m68k architecture alignment from 2-bytes to 4-bytes, because several 
upstream projects require it:
	https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Alignment

While this has no immediate impact on MiNT, it means that there won't 
any more be somebody constantly building latest SW with latest 
toolchains, using 2-byte alignment, and filing upstream bugs about the 
issues. So eventually support for that is going to break in GCC & other 
projects and not get fixed, like happened for a.out.

What would break / need fixing if MiNT GCC & related tools would be 
built / using 4-byte alignment?   Or should everything "just work"?


	- Eero

(If somebody is already testing that, I would be interested to compare / 
profile perf difference between such binaries at some point.)