On Tue, 20 May 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > As for gccgo, has that ever worked on m68k? > > Yes. > Why is an ABI change needed to get it to work again? > > Other language runtimes work fine on the m68k ABI. Why is Rust > > special? > > You mean other languages such as JavaScript, Go, Java, Python and > WebKit? > > No, they don't work fine on m68k. > Python works -- you patched it yourself! -- it doesn't need a special ABI. As for the Java runtime etc. I've never tried to install them on m68k but I know they were ported to a variety of ABIs with a variety of alignment rules, that do not guarantee natural alignment of integer types.
