On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:36:40AM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
If anyone has access to a big-endian platform with a modern C++ compiler, please, please run the endian test suite and report the results. All testing and use in recent years has been on little-endian platforms, so big-endian platform testing is a worry.
I gave it a try with a 1.56 source tree and Endian checked out at commit 49866e07842e4b2b9c2d8e76b2c7fb3a61a1bdd2 on the three big-endian configurations I had handy: sparc64 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE with their stock GCC 4.2.1; powerpc AIX 5.3 with our own GCC 4.9.1; powerpc AIX 5.3 with IBM XL C/C++ V11.1. 'converter_test' fails across all three, see attached log files. XLC appears to additionally fail to link 'endian_operations_test', but I don't know if you consider it a generally working compiler :) -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se