Re: [Boost-users] [endian] Boost.Endian library added for 1.57.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [endian] Boost.Endian library added for 1.57.0
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-18 04:35:10

On 16/08/2014 03:36, Beman Dawes wrote:
> If anyone has access to a big-endian platform with a modern C++
> compiler, please, please run the endian test suite and report the
> results. All testing and use in recent years has been on little-endian
> platforms, so big-endian platform testing is a worry.

How modern does the compiler need to be?

I have access to a couple of BE platforms but mostly they're using 
ancient compilers from the dawn of time.  (Only one of them uses GCC >= 3.)