Hello OpenBSD Devs,

Hopefully this bug-related question will not be too off-topic. I was
curious as to the reason for continued SPARC support and saw this
interesting sentence on the sparc64 page
(https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html).

"The other architectures that OpenBSD supports have benefited because
some kinds of bugs are exposed more often by the 64-bit big endian
nature of UltraSPARC"

I would like to further understand how the "64-bit big endian nature"
helps in practice and be able to point someone who is curious to
specific examples where there was a positive impact. Are there
particular discussions on this mailing list which demonstrate this
unique quality of the SPARC ISA for OpenBSD?

Thanks!

-- 
 - EJR

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