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Yup. OpenBSD has pointed out a number of times the utility of the SPARC build platform to ferret out things like bad alignment assumptions. Perhaps someone wi
by kjs3 5y ago
Yup. OpenBSD has pointed out a number of times the utility of the SPARC build platform to ferret out things like bad alignment assumptions.
Perhaps someone will modify RISC-V or some such to have variable alignment rules, switchable endianness, etc. as a debugging platform.
But there's a limit...I doubt we'll see, for example, anyone offering a ones compliment machine, even though it might reveal some interesting bugs.