big-endian+64 platforms test required TT#254: t/native_pbc/number.t

[Andrew Whitworth]

Here are the two pbc files from my system. I've already posted the
output of pdump to the TT. Anything else I can do to help?

--Andrew Whitworth

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:
>> #254: t/native_pbc/number.t:  New failure on some platforms
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>>  Reporter:  jkeenan  |       Owner:
>>      Type:  bug      |      Status:  new
>>  Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:
>> Component:  none     |     Version:
>>  Severity:  medium   |    Keywords:
>>      Lang:           |       Patch:
>>  Platform:           |
>> ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------
>>  A change today in ''t/native_pbc/number.t'' (and possibly other files) has
>>  caused a test in that file to begin to fail on some, but not all,
>>  platforms.
>>
>>  See attachments.
>>
>>  I experienced this failure on Darwin/PPC, but not on Linux/i386.  It was
>>  also reported on x86_64 on ICC.
>
> PBC is supposed to be platform independent, but the tests were disabled
> due "to ongoing pbc format changes", which settled around 2005.
> I enabled some of these tests in order to get failure reports from
> non-32bit or big-endian platforms.
>
> Can someone on darwin/ppc or 64-bit platforms or platforms with failing
> t/native_pbc/number.t or integer tests please send some native pbc's as
> described in t/native_pbc/number.t
>
> ./parrot -o n.pbc t/op/number_1.pasm
> make pdump
> ./pdump -h n.pbc
>
> We'd need the n.pbc and the output of ./pdump -h n.pbc
>
> For a failing t/native_pbc/integer.t it would be:
> cat > i.pasm <<EOF
> print 0x10203040
> end
> EOF
> ./parrot -o i.pbc i.pasm
>
> ./pdump -h i.pbc
>
> I'll fix the packfile reader and add the tests then.
> Thanks.
> --
> Reini Urban
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