On 09/08/2016 05:02 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
FAIL: test-timespec
>>>===================
>>>
>>>test-timespec.c:138: assertion 'cmp (a, b) == sign (i - j)' failed
>>>FAIL test-timespec (exit status: 262)
>
>This one is interesting.
>It would be great if you could get in with a debugger to see what
>exactly is going wrong.
>It's probably not an issue for diffutils, as it barely uses timespec
>at all and does not use timespec_sub.
I didn’t get into looking into that yet, sorry.
If the failure is in line test-timespec.c line 138 it is more likely a
bug in timespec_cmp.
For what it's worth I cannot reproduce the problem on Solaris 10 sparc
when compiling with Oracle Studio 12.5 with the -m64 flag. I used the
current version of gnulib (commit
7da1068a87c331793af73359d8637d140d08a674), created the test with
'./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir foo timespec', built it with
'./configure CC="cc -m64"' and ran it with 'make check'.
Perhaps it was a compiler bug, fixed in Oracle Studio 12.5? One can
always hope.
