Re: [PATCH lt/block-sha1 0/2 v3] block-sha1: avoid pointer conversion that violates alignment constraints

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

This is a series of two patches: the first avoids alignment faults
that were making git either slow on Alpha machines or crashy,
depending on the machine's configuration, and the second patch is a
cosmetic nit noticed while reviewing the first.
...
Thoughts?
Jonathan

Thanks.

Did somebody actually compiled Git for Alpha, and even more
surprisingly on a big-endian variant of one?

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Thanks.

Did somebody actually compiled Git for Alpha, and even more
surprisingly on a big-endian variant of one?

Logs from building for Alpha and running the test suite are here:

 http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/logs.php?pkg=git&arch=alpha

The big-endian part was just my idiocy, sorry.