Re: F38 proposal: X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 04:49:17PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> The use-case for clients with different endianess is ''very'' niche.
> It was common in the 1980s when X was originally developed but at this
> point a vanishingly small number of users run clients and X servers on
> different machines,

I doubt this part is true.  Have you measured it?  Anyway I use this
all the time (though not with different endianness).

> * this only affects use-cases where the server runs on a little endian
> host and the client on a Big Endian host (or vice versa).

I guess this affects something like x86 server running a client on
s390x (which is very rare indeed).

Rich.

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