On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM Gary Buhrmaster
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > > whereas it's common for builds to fail only on s390x
> > > due to endianness issues.
> >
> > This is a feature, not a bug.
>
> Not just a feature, an advantage.  With the
> elimination of BE Power as a supported
> architecture, the s/390 BE architecture
> helps developers identify errors due to
> LE monoculture thinking.

Well, mostly, it just makes things blow up in packagers faces only on s390x.
Most upstream developers I reported endianness bugs to were happy to
take patches but almost always said something to the effect of "this
is an obscure CPU architecture that I cannot test or even have access
to, patches welcome but meh"

Fabio
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