On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > * Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>, 2014-11-21, 14:04: >> >> Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was trying to >> fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience with liblo shows >> that other architectures are just fine (or at least are just slower) with >> this type of unalignment. > > > IME, sprac buildds are the only ones where where unaligned access in a > build-time test suite triggers SIGBUS/SIGSEGV. > > Now that sparc is no long a release architecture, these kind of problems are > likely to go unnoticed. :-(
Sparc was also really good to detect fpu error. And it is a loss for scientific software. s390 (without x) was also good to detect ptrdiff_t and size_t implicit cast (see for instance http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36883). Bastien > > -- > Jakub Wilk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141121170111.ga4...@jwilk.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cae2spaab14vbouzndyrnqnp7hlpfpruxdcrkvbxnt_fr2yn...@mail.gmail.com