[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#753485: Bug#753485: Status of samtools

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 06:42:34PM +0000, Aleksandar Zlicic a écrit :
> 
> On the other hand, most of the changes regarding unaligned access issues
> weren't accepted and upstream developers suggested this should be fixed in
> another way, that is by implementing a standard set of functions for accessing
> memory in both cases (where architecture supports unaligned access and for
> architectures which don't) and using these functions for accessing memory
> throughout the code.
> 
> One of the samtools developers has done some work to implement this
> (https://github.com/jkbonfield/htslib/tree/SPARC), but changes from this
> experimental branch haven't been merged to the main branch yet.

Hi Aleksandar and Andreas,

I was contacted by one of the upstream developers about getting access
to a SPARC porter box, and just asked for it to the DSA.  Let's see
how it goes.

Cheers,

Charles

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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan