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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-08-26 16:05, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 26/08/2019 17:24, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > Agreed.  That looks like it may be have been a rebase issue as the
> > commit was for MSVC and shouldn't affect PPC.
> >
> > @Tom, shout if you see an issue here.  I've pushed the patch to master
> > in the meantime.
> I don't see a technical issue, but rather a practical one: why Linux
> distributions dictate us what architectures we should support?
>
> I've never seen a machine with a little-endian PPC.
>
> Tom

The LE variant is the PPC future starting with POWER8[1][2].

[1] 
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=POWER-PPC64-Discontinue-Fedora
[2] https://developer.ibm.com/articles/l-power-little-endian-faq-trs/