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author | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2023-04-06 11:27:38 +0100 |
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committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2023-04-06 11:27:38 +0100 |
commit | efca56beb6bbb9547d49163cac02eac0b5c1f657 (patch) | |
tree | 8bf6231248f07665ec95268dc33bf4acfde82f63 /profiles/features/big-endian/README | |
parent | 99d38fd80dbcd05d7ac05f9fbc86c396bacd5f7c (diff) |
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diff --git a/profiles/features/big-endian/README b/profiles/features/big-endian/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b3ef98017674 --- /dev/null +++ b/profiles/features/big-endian/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +features/big-endian: a common profile for big-endian architectures and +sub-architectures. This is for masks which are necessary due to problems which +arise solely due to endian correctness. Solving a problem which causes one of +these masks does not guarantee that the package will automatically work on all +big-endian platforms, but it is a prerequisite to work on any of them. + +Please be cautious about adding things here as it will likely affect a platform +that has not been tested on. A good heuristic to use is either: + +1) works on ppc64le and not on ppc64, or 2) work on 3 different little-endian +platforms and not on 3 different big-endian platforms, and the BE platforms +fail in the same way. |