Re: Is --enable-64 still experimental?

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 03/19/2015 11:34 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> There's been a request in Fedora
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082507) to enable 64bit
>> indexing
>> in octave.  I see in 4.0.0-rc1 this is still marked as experimental,
>> which is
>> one of the reasons we're not enabling it.  Is this indeed still the case? 
>> It
>> seems like it would be a good thing to enable otherwise.
> 
> I think it's still incomplete.  For example, saving and loading data may 
> not work properly with 64-bit indexing.

The test suite contains tests for load/save, I presume?

I've been using 64-bit indexing builds for several months now on Windows and
I saw no issues with load/save, neither with Octave-generated nor
Matlab-generated .mat files. I can't vouch for other file types.
Apart from that, __run_test_suite__.m shows a number of failed tests that
pass on 32-bit and --enable-windows-64 MinGW builds.

On Linux I've got a 64-bit idx build (4.1.0+) made with MXE along the lines
you've sketched in a bug report discussion some months ago; I do not use
Octave that much on Linux so I didn't test thoroughly but overall that build
works fine as well. Some tests did fail when run manually.
 
There are however still issues with several OF packages. See the task
tracker task #13313, the OF package issues mentioned there are equally valid
for Linux.

Philip




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