[PPL-devel] Big Endian Regression Test Failures

[Edd Barrett]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 03:03:43PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
> On 08/18/12 14:37, Edd Barrett wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:39:30PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have (slowly) been packaging PPL for OpenBSD. I mostly have amd64/i386
> >>build+regressions sorted with c,c++,java,ocaml interfaces enabled
> >>(swi-prolog on the todo list). We tend to test things on big endian
> >>machines, as they find all kinds of bugs. Anything that uses OCaml is
> >>especially tested on sparc64, as there is no native code backend for
> >>this architecture.
> >>
> >>Attached is a gzipped regression test log on a sparc64 machine with
> >>PPL_NOISY_TESTS=yes set. A few tests failed. This build was for PPL-1.0
> >>with the C,C++ and Ocaml interfaces enabled (Java could not be included
> >>as openjdk only runs on i386 and amd64 on OpenBSD).
> >>
> >>Meanwhile, I will checkout the latest development code and see if
> >>anything changes.
> >
> >Attached are the regression test failures using PPL master on sparc64.
> 
> Hi Edd.
> 
> These have the same cause we already discussed (already reported
> and fixed upstream by Matthew Dempsky <matthew at dempsky.org>).
> Perhaps you mean you are testing with the fixed version of libstdc++?

Hmm. 

I updated the machine last weekend. Perhaps the fix has not yet
propogated to snapshots.

-- 

Edd Barrett
Programming Languages and Systems Research
University of Kent
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/rpg/eb771/