Carlos O'Donell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
