On Mon, 28 Aug 2023, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 08:56 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > And potentially more in the future, which may be anticipated on the > > > basis that "those users don't need a stable ABI any more, so let's > > > just ignore the portability issues in our code and leave the problem > > > to the distros and toolchain developers". > > > > Indeed, the world is slowly turning into "everything is 64-bit little > > endian"... > > Well, if we want to prevent that to happen in the future, we should make > sure that the m68k port is prepared for the future. > Agreed. And if we get it right, all those 64-bit architectures will not find themselves in the same predicament m68k is in now, once vendors of shiny 128-bit and 256-bit architectures start tossing them on the scrap heap. How will they avoid that predicament? By following our lead, and making struct member alignment decisions explicit.
