Andreas Schwab dixit:

>On m68k, every object by default is at most aligned to a 2 byte
>boundary.  That's a heritage of the original Sun m68000 compiler, which
>served as the template for the gcc configuration for Linux/m68k when the
>porting started.

Ah, from there. I think it might violate the SYSV ABI, funnily
enough (which I've peeked into in order to port elfutils when
bored again). Oh the history ;)

bye,
//mirabilos
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22:20⎜<asarch> The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master
22:21⎜<asarch> And the distance between the craziness and geniality is
only measured by the success                       22:21⎜<mksh> it’s a
very thin line anyway… with some, you don’t know which side they’re on

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