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

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

Hi,

On 13.6.2025 17.49, Thorsten Otto via Freemint-discuss wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't "just" recompiling everything (including TOS?), and using 
different library paths take care of that?

*Except* for all the assembly code which would need to be investigated 
and fixed manually...


> IMHO a very bad decision by the debian people.

And apparently Gentoo maintainer too.


> 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.


	- Eero