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

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Nelson,

Thanks for your report!

"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.

Ludo’.