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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. |