Re: guile-2.0.1 on 64-bit PowerPC Gentoo Linux: one test failure

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Nelson,

> "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> writes:
>
>> I've just done two builds of guile-2.0.1 on 64-bit PowerPC Gentoo
>> Linux with differing choices of PATH.  Here are the settings for one
>> of them:
>>
>> 	% cat /etc/gentoo-release
>> 	Gentoo Base System release 1.12.14
>>
>> 	% gcc --version
>> 	gcc (Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.2, pie-0.4.5) 4.4.5
>>
>> 	PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>>
>> 	LDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,/lib -L/lib  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
>> 	LIBS=-lgc
>>
>> The builds are successful, but there is a single test failure:
>>
>> 	PASS: test-asmobs
>> 	bad return from expression `(f-s8-)': expected -100; got -1
>> 	bad return from expression `(f-u8-)': expected 200; got 0
>> 	bad return from expression `(f-s16-)': expected -20000; got -1
>> 	bad return from expression `(f-u16-)': expected 40000; got 0
>> 	bad return from expression `(f-s32-)': expected -2000000000; got -1
>> 	bad return from expression `(f-u32-)': expected 4000000000; got 0
>
> I’ve reproduced the problem and I’m looking for a fix that won’t break
> other arches.  ;-)
>
> See <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.ffi.general/406> for
> details.

Commit 012062a0d61cbd297dd58c8168433518c8b450cc fixes it.  You can test
it using a 2.0 snapshot, see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/download.html#snapshots>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.