Re: a plea for big endian testing of unison

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:35:33 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 06:45:02PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> 
>> I am the upstream maintainer of unison, a user-space program that's
>> almost like a distributed filesystem.  It has a new wire protocol that
>> is independent of the ocaml version (the old protocol used builtin ocaml
>> serialization that should have been stable but wasn't).
>> 
>> I would really like to test the protocol cross endian; this is easy if
>> you have a netbsd system running sparc64.
>
> I tested sparc64 <-> amd64 and sparc64 <-> sparc64.
> Both work fine.

Thanks very much for the report.  This is the first confirmation of
amd64 to BE architecture.
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