Re: 1.9.9 test failures on powerpc-apple-darwin8

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi David,

Thanks for your report!

David Fang <address@hidden> writes:

> ERROR: Bad return from expression (f-s8-) -1 -100
> FAIL: test-ffi

Can you check whether this patch fixes it?

  
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=guile.git;a=commitdiff;h=a2c6904911577b51c2486ad7115a4311524d4a96

I stumbled upon this bug with bindings for a C function with arguments
(list '* size_t '*) where the first pointer got mangled before it was
passed to the C function.  We were “lucky” that none of the tests in
‘test-ffi’ uncovered it.

> FAIL: net-db.test: getaddrinfo: no name
> FAIL: net-db.test: getaddrinfo: wrong service name

We’ve seen similar problems on Darwin 9.2.2:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-02/msg00061.html

Could you please email address@hidden with a reference to this
thread and additional data regarding the behavior of getaddrinfo(3) on
this platform?  (I don’t have access to this platform.)

> Running regexp.test
> ERROR: regexp.test: regexp-quote: regexp/extended: (char 254 #\þ
> "þ") - 
> arguments: ((regular-expression-syntax "make-regexp" "empty
> (sub)expression" #f ("þ")))
> FAIL: regexp.test: regexp-quote: regexp/extended: (string "aX" 254
> #\þ "aþ" "aþ")
> FAIL: regexp.test: regexp-quote: regexp/extended: string of all chars

I don’t remember seeing it before.

What does this return on your machine:

  $ locale -a | grep 8859.*1

Thanks,
Ludo’.