Bounty to solve endianess issue in Odyssey's JavaScript engine

Solve the endianess issue in Odyssey's JavaScript engine to allow using it on big endian CPUs. One of the approaches
can be to bring in the minimal set of changes from Leaopard WebKit repository to Odyssey repository.

discussion here:
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/vi ... t_id=97679#forumpost97679

I could imagine that it would be interesting for AmigaOS users. Perhaps people could participate in discussion.

@OlafS3
I assume I am missing something "obvious": What endian issues?? JavaScript is already working in Odyssey...

@ChrisH

One of the reasons that there hasn't been an update is apparently that in more recent webkit snapshots the javascript breaks due to endianess, whether support was dropped or just broke I don't know.

@broadblues
Thanks. In that case a more-correct title (and more likely to create interest IMHO) would have ended in "... endianess issue in Webkit's JavaScript engine".

I know nothing of endianessesses. Heh. But I do believe there is something wrong with JavaScript in Odyssey under AmigaOS(4.1). I think that is where the terrible memory leak is, so I'd support any effort that gets us to a fix for this.

At the suggestion of another user, I have disabled JavaScript by default in Odyssey and now enable it from menu selection only when I visit a website that requires it. Afterward I disable it. This way, I can leave Odyssey open for hours and hours and hours without my X1000s locking up. Before, if I let Odyssey run too long, eventually I would have a locked up machine.

Anyway, I'd support anything that gets us to an update/fix quicker. We seem to be at a standstill until now, for whatever reason.

@mbrantley

Big endian (PowerPC / 680x0).

Biggest value – smallest value.

100, 10, 1

little endian (x86).

Smallest value - Biggest value.

1, 10, 100

x86 is brain f..ked.

You don't notice the difference, until you look at memory bump with hex editor normally, mostly it messed with file format, and other things stored in files.

@LiveForIt

THis bounty is a good idea as we will need to update Odyssey to keep os4 somewhat current for daily usage..

@magnetic

Deadwood dropped the idea of the bounty as there seemed to be no interest in it.

@terminills
I have interests but will not register me at the aros homepage
He can create the bounty and i will donate some money ;)

@tommysammy

Personally I have no interest but perhaps maybe someone could bring the discussion over to AWN as opposed to AE.

@LiveForIt

little endian for x86 CPUs plz corrrect

@topic

I'll donate something for sure for a bounty like that and plz consider to add also a side bounty for JIt...

@mbrantley

Not just Odessey, I get the same thing from long running, long-term-partial-refresh JavaScript pages in TimberWolf where new things get made but the old ones aren't flushed until I restart the browser or machine.

@All: Endianness is whether the most significant bit of any binary value is the highest or lowest addressable part of any value really.

at least it isn't the half and half PDP-11 style