No support for bigendian machines #888

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   jonassmedegaard commented at 11:27 am on February 23, 2012: none

   Details here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=bitcoin
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   jonassmedegaard commented at 11:33 am on February 23, 2012: none

   …and apparently as far back as 0.4.0 (perhaps always, just not covered by regression tests before that?).

   See the “old” links in above page, e.g. https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=bitcoin&arch=mips

3. 
   sipa commented at 12:06 pm on February 23, 2012: member

   Unfortunately, Satoshi’s implementation always depended on little-endianness. As the serialization is implemented through simple memory copying, there is no way it would work on other endiannesses. I am willing to look into this, and improve the situation, but access to a big-endian system would be useful…
4. 
   sipa commented at 7:17 pm on February 25, 2012: member

   I’ve demoted this from bug to improvement; non-little endian architectures are simply not supported for now.
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   laanwj commented at 4:18 pm on April 17, 2012: member

   Related issue: serialize.h its binary format depends on the in-memory sizes of char, int, long, … On a platform on which these are different from x86, the serialized format will be incompatible.
6. laanwj renamed this:
   0.5.2 fails regression tests on bigendian machines
   No support for bigendian machines
   on Apr 29, 2014
7. 
   laanwj commented at 9:55 am on July 21, 2015: member

   Closing after #5510
8. laanwj closed this on Jul 21, 2015

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