Bug#344615: missinglib: ftbfs [sparc] *** [test] Bus error

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 344615 ocaml
severity 344615 important
thanks

Samuel Mimram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Blars Blarson wrote:
>
> > missinglib failed to build on a sparc buildd, duplicated on my sparc
> > pbuilder.  Please note that some buggy code that casts structures used
> > to work no longer works due to changes in gcc.
> >
> > ./runtests
> > ........................................................
> > Ran: 56 tests in: 0.02 seconds.
> > OK
> > ./runtests.opt
> > ........................................................make[2]: *** 
> > [test] Bus error
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/missinglib-0.4.10.debian/test'
> > make[1]: *** [test] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/missinglib-0.4.10.debian'
> > make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
>
> Right. Thanks for the report.
>
> I'll investigate this a bit since I have access to a sparc, but it looks 
> very much like yet another bug in the ocaml compiler (missinglib does 
> not contain C code).

Weired bug. And of course, it does not show up when running the program 
under gdb... I'm reassigning the bug to ocaml, any idea about this is 
welcome.

Cheers,

Samuel.