On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 08:59:32PM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I sometimes see unit test failures. The developer ran the tests, but not
> > on S390.
> 
> Why would I want a test failure on such an exotic architecture to fail my 
> build?

The architecture is weird enough (big endian!) that it may show your
code has various incorrect assumptions.  We found one the other day
actually:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-January/132096.html

Rich.

> The only reason Fedora supports that architecture at all is pressure 
> from IBM. Basically nobody uses it.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
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