Back in the 6.2-rc1 days, Eric Whitney reported a fstests regression in
ext4 against generic/454.  The cause of this test failure was the
unfortunate combination of setting an xattr name containing UTF8 encoded
emoji, an xattr hash function that accepted a char pointer with no
explicit signedness, signed type extension of those chars to an int, and
the 6.2 build tools maintainers deciding to mandate -funsigned-char
across the board.  As a result, the ondisk extended attribute structure
written out by 6.1 and 6.2 were not the same.

This discrepancy, in fact, had been noticeable if a filesystem with such
an xattr were moved between any two architectures that don't employ the
same signedness of a raw "char" declaration.  The only reason anyone
noticed is that x86 gcc defaults to signed, and no such -funsigned-char
update was made to e2fsprogs, so e2fsck immediately started reporting
data corruption.

After a day and a half of discussing how to handle this use case...