OpenBSD test failures in t/src/extend_vtable.t

[Andy Dougherty]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I wrote these tests originally, and I assumed that anything returned from the
> get_pointer vtable should be a positive integer, since I assumed that all
> memory locations were positive.
> 
> That assumption seems to be wrong on OpenBSD.

> I recently modified [0] that test to provide more debugging output, so if you
> update parrot.git and run the test again, it should print out the integer it
> gets from get_pointer. If it is negative, then our test is wrong and your patch
> would work fine. If it is returning 0 or NULL, then something is wrong with the
> get_pointer vtable on OpenBSD.

I won't have the opportunity to test it for a while, but I think it's now 
clear that the test should simply be checking for a non-NULL pointer. 
I recommend simply changing the test now.

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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu