On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > > The next big question will be then how we're going to make the transition
> > > to the TLS support. IMO it would be very benefical, if we could fix our
> > > ABI at the same time, e.g. the amount of alignment bugs I had to fix
> > > lately is not funny anymore.
> >
> > Which alignment do you mean? 32-bit values aligned on a 2-byte boundary?
>
> Yes, it causes all kind of stupid bugs, which only trigger on m68k...
But if you change it, how much software that does handle it correctly now will
break?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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