Re: [PATCH v2] docs: submit-checklist: Expand on build tests against different word sizes
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date: 2025-02-10 18:01:29
Akira Yokosawa [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Existing sentence on cross-compilation that mentions ppc64 does not make much sense in today's perspective. Expand it for the benefits of testing against architectures of different word sizes and endianness. Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <redacted> --- v2: Split out change in the English doc from v1 [1]. Keep Randy's Rb tag (as it was meant for the change in English doc). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250128102805.112691-2-akiyks@gmail.com/ (local) -- Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst b/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst index e531dd504b6c..88b6358258d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst@@ -91,9 +91,12 @@ Build your code fix any issues. 2) Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools - or some other build farm. Note that ppc64 is a good architecture for - cross-compilation checking because it tends to use ``unsigned long`` for - 64-bit quantities. + or some other build farm. + Note that testing against architectures of different word sizes + (32- and 64-bit) and different endianness (big- and little-) is effective + in catching various portability issues due to false assumptions on + representable quantity range, data alignment, or endianness, among + others.
Applied, thanks. jon