Re: Bug#548493: test-yesno.sh failure

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:03:42PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the details.
> Here's a patch that's more likely to work.
> That this failure is specific to the sparc build
> is a strong indication that it is a bug in dash or the compiler.
> Maybe a sign-extension bug?

I'm seeing this on alpha too and was able to reproduce it on
albeniz's sid chroot.

It also failed on armel.  And armel has char default to unsigned,
which most of the arches have it signed.

> FYI, I couldn't reproduce that failure on sparc64 (sperger/unstable)
> with dash built from git using gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-2).

So do you think it's a bug in dash that's been fix in git, or a
bug in gcc that's been fixed?  In the first case, please clone
a bug against dash.  In the second case I can schedule a binNMU
to get dash built with the new gcc.  And I actually have to guess
it being the first.


Kurt