Re: 1.9.9 test failures on powerpc-apple-darwin8

[David Fang]

> > 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 tried the patch but still get:

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


> 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 ÿÿluckyÿÿ that none of the tests in
> ÿÿtest-ffiÿÿ uncovered it.
>
> > FAIL: net-db.test: getaddrinfo: no name
> > FAIL: net-db.test: getaddrinfo: wrong service name
>
> Weÿÿve 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 donÿÿt have access to this platform.)

Will get around to this separately.

> > 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 donÿÿt remember seeing it before.
>
> What does this return on your machine:
>
>  $ locale -a | grep 8859.*1

% locale -a | grep 8859
af_ZA.ISO8859-1
af_ZA.ISO8859-15
be_BY.ISO8859-5
ca_ES.ISO8859-1
ca_ES.ISO8859-15
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
da_DK.ISO8859-1
da_DK.ISO8859-15
de_AT.ISO8859-1
de_AT.ISO8859-15
de_CH.ISO8859-1
de_CH.ISO8859-15
de_DE.ISO8859-1
de_DE.ISO8859-15
el_GR.ISO8859-7
en_AU.ISO8859-1
en_AU.ISO8859-15
en_CA.ISO8859-1
en_CA.ISO8859-15
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_NZ.ISO8859-1
en_NZ.ISO8859-15
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
es_ES.ISO8859-1
es_ES.ISO8859-15
et_EE.ISO8859-15
eu_ES.ISO8859-1
eu_ES.ISO8859-15
fi_FI.ISO8859-1
fi_FI.ISO8859-15
fr_BE.ISO8859-1
fr_BE.ISO8859-15
fr_CA.ISO8859-1
fr_CA.ISO8859-15
fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.ISO8859-15
fr_FR.ISO8859-1
fr_FR.ISO8859-15
hr_HR.ISO8859-2
hu_HU.ISO8859-2
is_IS.ISO8859-1
is_IS.ISO8859-15
it_CH.ISO8859-1
it_CH.ISO8859-15
it_IT.ISO8859-1
it_IT.ISO8859-15
lt_LT.ISO8859-13
lt_LT.ISO8859-4
nl_BE.ISO8859-1
nl_BE.ISO8859-15
nl_NL.ISO8859-1
nl_NL.ISO8859-15
no_NO.ISO8859-1
no_NO.ISO8859-15
pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pt_BR.ISO8859-1
pt_PT.ISO8859-1
pt_PT.ISO8859-15
ro_RO.ISO8859-2
ru_RU.ISO8859-5
sk_SK.ISO8859-2
sl_SI.ISO8859-2
sr_YU.ISO8859-2
sr_YU.ISO8859-5
sv_SE.ISO8859-1
sv_SE.ISO8859-15
tr_TR.ISO8859-9
uk_UA.ISO8859-5

Hope this helps.


David Fang
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
http://www.achronix.com/