On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Fred Wright via devel <[email protected]>: > > > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > > > > It seems like a good idea for somebody to actually test our code on a > > > big-endian system. > > > > I've run it on my PowerBook (OSX 10.5), though I didn't attempt any > > detailed analysis of the behavior. The clock offset had more wander than > > I'd like, but no worse than classic ntpd. > > The Classic code was already endianness-proofed quite well. Breaking that > property is a mistake I know how to avoid. :-)
I can believe that, but there are plenty of people who don't. :-) I recall something at Google where there was a bash script with an endian-sensitive argument. Only of academic interest at the time. Fred Wright _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
