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by zdw 3005 days ago
In general, OpenBSD support for Sparc helps with testing - the Sparc is architecturally quite a bit different from other CPUs:

https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html

"The other architectures that OpenBSD supports have benefited because some kinds of bugs are exposed more often by the 64-bit big endian nature of UltraSPARC."

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That’s the same reason I include Solaris as a target in my automated build system. It’s arcane enough and independently developed enough to expose incorrect assumptions in C code.
Could you say how you do that? Keep an open indiana VM and tell Jenkins it's a build slave?