Re: Patch for graphics/lcms2 (alignment issues on sparc)

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 06:05:45PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > >  > > You can do something like [...]
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yes, someone could do all that.
 > >
 > > And upstream might be more interested in it.
 > 
 > They might, but they were uninterested because "sparc is not a supported
 > platform" (and more or less we don't want any lines of coded added to
 > accomodate it), not "there is a problem but your change is not clean
 > enough".

Maybe; from what was posted here it sounded more like they didn't want
any additional operational cost for a theoretical problem than that
they weren't interested in handling the alignment safely at all.

but idk, I'm not interested enough to go debate it with them...

 > >  > I don't think it's ok to block adding that simple accomodation
 > >  > because in theory someone could make a more general fix.
 > >
 > > Did I say I was trying to block anything?
 > 
 > You didn't, but I got the impression from other commenters.  Sorry for
 > overinferring.

No worries...

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David A. Holland
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