Quote from: mikaelh on February 13, 2014, 04:35:38 PM

Quote from: chobozz on February 11, 2014, 04:41:42 PM

hi, is it possible to run miner on SPARC?

I have only tested my code on x86 and x86-64, so some issues will likely arise on other platforms. You would probably need to do some porting to get the code running on SPARC.

I compiled and ran this on ARM back in the day (mined two blocks on a Linkstation, FWIW). The main thing to worry about *coin daemons on fringe platforms is endianness, as some of the protocols are stuck on little-endian. I never got a wallet working on a PowerPC but my custom mining script was fine :-j

(Rant: hash algorithms, network byte order, and natural number systems are all big endian. The original Bitcoin client/daemon was developed on x86 Windows and it makes all kinds of assumptions and translations with byte order. Banks will never use *coin because big iron is traditionally big endian Grin

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