On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 10:14 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz via Libc-help: > > > I was just looking at the necessary changes to switch m68k to 32-bit > > alignment > > and I'm not sure we need to do anything about glibc. I am documenting my > > current > > findings here [1]. > > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/Alignment > > Why doesn't this change need a new target triple? This change alters > struct layout (it introduces new padding in some cases), so it's quite > incompatible with what we have today.
My argument is that Linux/m68k is a pure hobbyist project and anyone involved can deal with the changes coming from the alignment change. Introducing a new triplet would mean having to accommodate for that in other projects which only know "m68k-(unknown-)linux-gnu. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
