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Re:NetBSD/Evbarm on Apple Silicon by kjs3 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @11:40AM (#28369403)
Yup. OpenBSD has pointed out a number of times the utility of the SPARC build platform to ferret out things like bad alignment assumptions.

Perhaps someone will modify RISC-V or some such to have variable alignment rules, switchable endianness, etc. as a debugging platform.

But there's a limit...I doubt we'll see, for example, anyone offering a ones compliment machine, even though it might reveal some interesting bugs.

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