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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH lt/block-sha1 0/2 v3] block-sha1: avoid pointer
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:28:42 -0700
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> 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?