Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] [PATCH] Fix endianness and memory alignment issues for big-endian architectures (s390x)

[Christian S. <sch...@li...>]

On Tuesday, 11 August 2026 11:19:03 CEST Pranav P wrote:
> Hi Christian and the LinuxSampler team,
> I have put together a patch to port libgig to big-endian architectures
> (testing happend on s390x). This was based on the bug report in Debian:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1116657 While the
> existing code works well on little-endian systems (like x86_64), it
> contained several assumptions that caused data corruption, CRC mismatches,
> and crashes (due to unaligned memory access) on big-endian systems. Changes
> made in this patch:

Hi Pranav,

thanks for pointing this out and for the patch.

I made a quick test with QEMU s390x user mode emulation and was able to 
reproduce these BE issues.

Give me some time. I am thinking about a cleaner approach to fix these.

/Christian