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

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

Please refresh my memory: isn't the m68k-atari-mintelf toolchain already
doing it?

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 at 16:40, Eero Tamminen <oa...@he...> wrote:

> 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.)
>
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