Re: Recent fix proposals
hi Mats,all,
I would suggest holding off submitting a PR for a bit longer pending
some further investigations..
My initial reaction was that I have a problem with machine specific
fixes, and would prefer to see a portable fix. I have forwarded the issues
to my engineers to look at, since similar code is used in several
test suites we maintain.
I then decided to look at this specific test code and see where the same
strategy is used elsewhere. I found that its used in one of the UNIX
certification test suites, and that all UNIX certified systems are
executing this code without the cited problems, including several 64-bit
implementations (inc LP64 systems).
So initial thoughts at the moment are that I would
not want to accept these changes as is. I'll get a response from
my engineers later in the week. I'll also discuss it in a couple
of other forums I maintain to see what folks come up with.
regards
Andrew
(btw if memory serves I think some of the UNIX system ports to itanium are
handling this issue in the compiler to preserve compatibility)
On Jul 26, 6:32pm in "Recent fix proposals", Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>
> I hope I've done these the right way, it's
> still early days and this is kind of a strange
> situation, testing against an unreleased
> platform (but using the same source code that
> made the released tests).
>
> The two proposed fixes which have potential
> to affect existing platforms I submitted
> as PRs through the CA, even though they
> don't appear to be problems in the currently
> running cerfication program, and I don't
> see a problem for existing platforms either,
> they're pretty trivial.
>
> The third proposed fix set I just sent
> here since it's completely bracketed by
> #ifdef __ia64__ in all places and thus
> cannot have an impact on other platforms.
>
> I can push that one up to the PR system
> as well if that's deemed appropriate.
>
>
> Mats
>
>
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