Re: Question about pure space

[James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 21:03 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > Can I ask what the problem with removing unexec is?
> 
> > Just the decision we need to make.  It means dropping the MSDOS port
> > and also the only kind of build that currently works on old Windows 9X
> > systems.  Maybe others as well (if there are configurations that still
> > don't support pdumper), I don't know.
> 
> The Gentoo ebuild still does --with-dumping=unexec for m68k:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8523c3faa98a21e8675d70e8fefa3f8a2c16309f
> 
> Not sure if this is still an issue, but apparently it was in 2022.

It was suspected that this was an alignment issue, which is very common on
m68k. Gentoo has been considering switching m68k to 32-bit alignment to work
around such issues. I'll see whether that helps when I get a moment.

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