Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> writes: > 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 ;)
I looked into fixing that when I ported m68k from a.out to ELF. Unfortunately, that would have broken a big part of the syscall/ioctl ABI, so I had to scratch that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
