History of m68k ABI and `-malign-int'?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:08:16AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > Why is 16-bit int alignment the default for m68k in gcc?
> >
> > Which ABIs influenced this decision?
> 
> The original ABI was defined by Sun PCC.  Note that the SysV ABI
> actually uses natural alignment for all types, but that came only much
> later.
> 
> You can find much of the history in the change logs of gcc 1.42.

Excellent, that scratches my itch, thanks for providing a history lesson
and a good pointer.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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