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

[Thorsten O. <ad...@th...>]

On Freitag, 13. Juni 2025 16:39:45 CEST Eero Tamminen wrote:
> What would break / need fixing if MiNT GCC & related tools would be
> built / using 4-byte alignment?   Or should everything "just work"?

No, it would not work. You can try mixing code by using -malign-int (which 
basically does the same) and get different structure layouts. IMHO a very bad 
decision by the debian people.

I think a lot of people misunderstand the difference between sizeof() and 
alignof(). And if projects fall into this trap, those projects should be 
fixed, not the compiler.