Re: Tuple and changes for m68k with -malign-int

[Richard]

On August 27, 2023 9:20:16 AM UTC, James Le Cuirot <ch...@aura-online.co.uk> 
wrote:
>On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 10:46 +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 09:53 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:
>> 

>> >
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>> If the kernel breaks the ABI, that's a bug, not an excuse. 

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>I do know that m68k Linux has been significantly slower since the transition
>from linuxthreads to NPTL due to the lack of a spare register, but I gather
>nothing can be done about that.

Thanks for saying that. Radically redefining "c" after 35 years of existence 
for next to zero gain wasn't such a great idea imho.

I hope the kernel ABI can remain stable and everything else is the problem of 
libraries?

Richard