Big endian port

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • WT2.8.0
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      If we're going to support Sparc, MIPS or big-endian ARM, we'll need to do some testing on big endian systems.

      One shortcut is to use OS X with Rosetta installed: with the right tools installed, a gcc flag builds for PowerPC on an x86 host without it even being a cross-compile. With current Xcode 4, a hack is required to re-enable PowerPC builds.

      The current build doesn't get very far: some of the struct size assumptions in verify_build.h fail.

            Assignee:
            Keith Bostic (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            WiredTiger
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