Hi!

I'd like to know if all architectures supported by Alpine Linux are
little endian, or if it can be installed to run as a big endian system
too (I'm asking this because, as a developer, I'd like to have a big
endian system for testing endian compatibility within my code).

In case it only supports little endian architectures... is there any
technical reason for that choice? (I mean, maybe some core component
is not endian-safe?)

Thanks!


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Hello,

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 3:08 PM, ardi <ardillasdelmonte@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know if all architectures supported by Alpine Linux are
> little endian, or if it can be installed to run as a big endian system
> too (I'm asking this because, as a developer, I'd like to have a big
> endian system for testing endian compatibility within my code).
>
> In case it only supports little endian architectures... is there any
> technical reason for that choice? (I mean, maybe some core component
> is not endian-safe?)

Most architectures are little endian, but Alpine does run on IBM
mainframes which are big endian.
There is also a work in progress ppc64 port to compliment the ppc64le one.

William


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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:48 PM, William Pitcock
<nenolod@dereferenced.org> wrote:
>
> Most architectures are little endian, but Alpine does run on IBM
> mainframes which are big endian.
> There is also a work in progress ppc64 port to compliment the ppc64le one.

Thanks a lot for the clarification! This means that building it in a
big-endian environment is technically possible. Thanks!

ardi


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