Re: s390x builder outage

Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Once upon a time, Gary Buhrmaster <[email protected]> said:
> I understand the issue, and cannot really disagree
> with your conclusions and proposed path forward,
> but it would be unfortunate to lose the last big
> endian architecture, as every once in a while, that
> architecture results in finding endian bugs.

If they're purely endian bugs, and everything else uses the same
endianness... then do we really care?  Sure, if it's actually some other
type of data-handling bug that is easily exposed because of endianness,
fix it.

Like, I bet there's lots of stuff that would break with 6-bit characters
or 36-bit words or one's complement arithmetic, but I wouldn't spend any
effort to fix it today.  And at this point, big endian is headed that
way.
-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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