On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 19:55 +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > 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?
Because software changes over time. Qt used to work with 2 bytes alignment as well when it had less features. > > > 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. Yes, I had to PATCH it. That's the point, Finn. > 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. I see. Since you haven't tested it, it means the bug doesn't exist. Gotcha. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
