Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Also definitely post-v1.7.10 material, but I figure many people will
>> be interested. Since it's such a central part of much of git, it's
>> also quite important that it gets tested heavily.
>
> I am interested but this is a material not beyond 'pu'. Until it
> learns to be nice on platforms that do not like unaligned accesses
> or use big endian, that is.
Umm, nice how? It leaves in the old version for those platforms. I can
perhaps make it #error if we are unhappy about the user's platform, but
that's about it. Testing for endianness is possible, but testing for
unaligned access risks SIGBUS and thus requires spawning a helper
program.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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