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3NetHack 3.3.0 was built with Metrowerk's Pro 4 compiler on a PPC
4system.  We are still compiling with 68K alignment because we know
5it works.  No one has checked lately if the PPC alignment bug
6still exists.
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923 May, 1996
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11NetHack 3.2.1 was built with Metrowerk's DR8 compiler on a PPC system.
12The official 68K and PPC versions were compiled with 68K Alignment
13to share files.  The 3.2.0 versions were compiled with PPC alignment,
14but it was discovered that the Metrowerks 68K compiler has a bug with
15PPC alignment and structures that can be aligned to a single byte.  This
16bug _may_ be fixed in DR10, it is not fixed in DR9.  Why bother with PPC
17alignment at all?  Because the space saving from 68K alignment is small
18and the PowerPC version will run better.  The 68K version was compiled
19with 4 byte ints using the far model.
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21Only the Metrowerks compiler has been used to compile the code in a
22long time.  It is _very_ likely that the other compilers, Think C and
23MPW C, will no longer be able to compile NetHack out of the box.  They
24and their files have been moved to the "old" directory until such time
25that someone can compile with them.
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