Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 3:03 AM Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 09:53 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > Not only mold but also most notably the following projects:
> >
> > - LLVM
> > - Firebird Database
> > - OpenJDK
> > - Various Qt packages
>
> And potentially more in the future, which may be anticipated on the basis
> that "those users don't need a stable ABI any more, so let's just ignore
> the portability issues in our code and leave the problem to the distros
> and toolchain developers".
Indeed, the world is slowly turning into "everything is 64-bit little endian"...
> Moreover, why is it that only a few developers have a problem with making
> explicit their decisions regarding alignment of shorts? What actual pain
> does it cause them to accept a patch to make their struct layouts plain?
I guess you mean "ints" and "longs" instead of "shorts"?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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