status of pytables across architectures

[Francesc Alted]

On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

>> 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 ;)

A sun blade 150 under the table? :-D

> * 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

Oh, that would help, thanks.  However, I'm pretty busy lately, so I cannot made promises on when I could put some quality time on this.

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

Yup, that would be a wise thing to do.  Thanks!

-- Francesc Alted