--- !ditz.rubyforge.org,2008-03-06/issue 
title: add a test environment for big endian byte order
desc: ""
type: :task
component: duk
release: v0.7
reporter: sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
status: :closed
disposition: :fixed
creation_time: 2013-08-17 22:11:27.729354 Z
references: []

id: 340178f743d061374092e7f87b3952e3a7961566
log_events: 
- - 2013-08-17 22:11:27.982235 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - created
  - ""
- - 2013-10-26 16:23:25.147311 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - |-
    PowerPC linux might be a good choice.  There is a 'pearpc' emulator which can run
    Linux.  Also UAE is a big endian environment but is has compiler challenges not
    related to big endian.
- - 2013-10-26 23:51:32.233756 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - |-
    PearPC / qemu-system-ppc didn't work well on Ubuntu.  qemu-system-sparc seems
    to work better and sparc is also big endian.
- - 2013-10-27 14:08:04.107898 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - commented
  - |-
    Settled on MIPS environment for now, with prebuilt image:
    http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mips/
- - 2013-10-27 14:08:10.331785 Z
  - sva <sami.vaarala@iki.fi>
  - closed with disposition fixed
  - ""