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I agree that we should make this a non-Amiga thing as this problem affect all PPC systems. I bet some PPC Mac users would be interested as well, and maybe they even have someone willing to take the bounty.

But don;t they have this Leopard Webkit thing that was suggested as asrc for fixes by DeadWood?

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Leopard-webkit is already outdated, it's based on AppleWebKit/600. That's from the Safari 7 era, I think.

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roocat browser use the same webkit and working good on leopard ppc.

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v8ppc: isn't this a project aimed at fixing the very same problem we currently have on our platform?

https://www.openhub.net/p/v8ppc

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Why not using the bounty money to support such an exiting project?

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It does seem like a very active project. Can someone contact them and confirm if we have the same goal and can cooperate?

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yup that looks like something we can bite into as a community.

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Deadwood made a great job in removing that annoying bug that eats memory at any javascript session. We can't ask him to made a tedious bug hunting controlling line per line Javascript webkit.

I think he deserves some money too, taken from the bounty or starting a new bounty to thank him with proper cash.

Perhaps I still not see Fabien Coeurjoly in sight and using Deadwood code so even in MorphOSnwe will get rid once and for all of this RAM consuming bug.

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Can you please provide me a working link to Safari for Mac PPC OS webpage together with rocat mail address sso I can ask him if it is true that he made an updated version of Safari aligned with OS 10.9 but he used outdated Javascript Engine from ancient Webkit release?

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What I wonder is if this could be solved at the compiler level? That is for an object or variable to be defined as little endian with an attribute. So the code then reads and writes the data with a little endian instruction.

In reality this shouldn't matter as a pointer format should be internal to the CPU and transparent to the high level programming code. However it doesn't look like they make high level languages this way which doesn't look right to me. Unless you import and export binary images of data structures this shouldn't be a problem.

It also looks like the coders are not writting proper portable code. But since Intel Endian has taken over the world with it's human unreadable code and when they said jump everybody asked how little, I suppose we can expect this. Given that the bugs would only show up on a rare CPU configuration that doesn't affect the populace.

Having converted code that is made for x86 to PPC I can tell you this is a right pain in the Bahamas. It can do your head in. If the GCC PPC compiler doesn't have a little endian attribute I suggest a major request be made for it. Or modify the source of GCC to have it!