I seem to recall the OpenBSD folks deliberately keeping around uncommon and old architectures in part because compiling and running on those old architectures flushes out bugs. So, from that perspective, your regression tests failing on legacy hobbyist platforms is a good thing.
Or maybe I was misunderstanding the point of Theo's post back in 2014 around the discussion of their power bill[1].
You can view code that assumes a little endian system or eight bit bytes as a bug, or you can see it simply as making reasonable assumptions. In the end programming always is about making assumptions and reducing scope to prevent an explosion of complexity.
Or maybe I was misunderstanding the point of Theo's post back in 2014 around the discussion of their power bill[1].
1. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=138973312304511&w=2