Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee: on Nostr: i honestly kinda miss gratuitous differences between platforms or architectures that ...
i honestly kinda miss gratuitous differences between platforms or architectures that *actually exercised portability issues*
endianness bugs were a common problem for me in 2003-2004 building foss packages that were mostly tested on Linux/x86 being on a funky BSD/PPC
fixed some bugs in gnu image manipulation program file format plugins back then, iirc the windows bmp and ico handlers especially :D
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