status of pytables across architectures

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

> On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > blosc_d (blocksize=32768, leftoverblock=<optimized out>, src=0x132f543 "S", dest=0x1421808 "", tmp=0x1429810 "", tmp2=
> >    0x1431830 "") at blosc/blosc.c:330
> > 330 cbytes = sw32(((uint32_t *)(src))[0]); /* amount of compressed bytes */
> [clip]
> Ups, I knew this was going to happen :-/  Blosc is designed for machines that allows access to unaligned data (e.g. Intel).  Unfortunately, I'm not sure how much effort would require me to come with a version for architectures with no support for unaligned fetches (ARM?), because, among other reasons, I don't have access to one of these.

heh -- I have tried to

* bootstrap debian on sunblade 150 I found under the table -- haven't
  managed yet although it should be possible ;)

* install debian in qemu emulated sparc64... no success either so far

if I come up with a working environment I could provide you access to, I
will let you know

meanwhile I guess it would be better to disable those modules and tests
on those architectures.

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