Bug#1135587: screen: screen no longer works on big-endian systems

From	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.ports.s390, linux.debian.ports.powerpc, linux.debian.ports.sparc
Subject	Bug#1135587: screen: screen no longer works on big-endian systems
Date	2026-05-04 12:50 +0200
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Hi Pranav,

On Mon, 2026-05-04 at 12:11 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Pranav,
> 
> On Mon, 2026-05-04 at 09:46 +0000, Pranav P wrote:
> > There seems to be a fix for this here in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67607
> > (https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/diff/?h=screen-v5&id=ccd0b27504707e4f3099f0b9fd7a89489c6973fb)
> > 
> > I have tested this patch on my s390x machine and it does seem to work fine.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up! I'll test it on both big-endian PowerPC and SPARC.

I can confirm that the attached patch extracted from the commit above fixes the problem.

Adrian

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