Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

Posted Aug 29, 2020 1:21 UTC (Sat) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel by Cyberax
Parent article: Software and hardware obsolescence in the kernel

The biggest issue I've run in with BE systems, is passing in a 64 bit integer pointer and reading it as a 32 bit one. That works fine for LE but crashes on BE.

But I do miss working on BE systems, as it makes reading raw memory out one byte at a time still makes sense