On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 07:33:46PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:31:30PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Package: elinks
> > Version: 0.12~pre5-2
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch
> > User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: sparc64
> > Forwarded: 
> > 
> > elinks doesn't work on 64-bit big-endian hosts, as it plays with
> > pointers and int, assuming that the machine is little endian. This
> > has already been reported upstream, and a patch is available. I have
> > included it below. Could you please add it in the next upload? Thanks in
> > advance.
> 
> Aurelien, is that something that should be fixed for Squeeze
> or is work on ppc64 planned for Wheezy?
> 

To be more precise, when I say host, I mean the userland. So we only
have the issue on 64-bit big-endian userland, which means for none of
the release architectures for Squeeze. It can definitely wait for
Wheezy where we expect to have a sparc64, and maybe s390x and ppc64.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurel...@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net



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