[pdftex] pdflatex failures on big-endian architectures (s390x / ppc64)

[Preuße, Hilmar]

On 23.10.2023 00:26, Karl Berry wrote:

Hi Karl,

> Failure of BigEndian + LaTeX + text extraction. Yikes. Doesn't look easy
> to work on. Can't easily run things to see if it happened between 2020
> and 2021, or 2021 and 2022. Or whether it might be due to changes in
> LaTeX.  I don't have TeX, let alone LaTeX, installations of every (or
> any) vintage on BigEndian. Setting that up would take quite some time.
> 
Not sure if you have access to the "GCC Compile Farm Project": I can 
reproduce the issue quite easy on cfarm203. It is running Debian trixie.

Hilmar
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