Re: Sync on Linux/Alpha
  By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Fri May 11 2007 06:00 pm

 >  > I might be getting an older DEC Alpha server, an AlphaServer 1000A
 >  > S/400RM to be exact, and I was curious if Sync would run on such a
 >  > system with Debian 4.0 for Linux.  If I do get it, it'll take some time
 >  > to get it home (it's the rack and all) plus setup.
 >
 > IIRC, the Alpha is a big-endian processor, in which case Synchronet does
 > not currently support that architecture. Even after we have big-endian
 > support in the code (Deuce does have an experimental patch), there will
 > likely be some additional effort to build for a platform that neither Deuce
 > nor I have access to.

Even worse, it's a 64-bit platform and requires alignment on sizeof()
boundaries.  That is to say that a long is 8 bytes and must be long aligned.

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