So we need a 64bit arm with gcc8 - for this testcase failure? Satish
On Wed, 2 May 2018, Jed Brown wrote: > On x86-64 Linux, the first six integer arguments are passed in registers > (rdi, rsi, rdx, rcx, r8, r9). Multiple smaller integers are not packed > into these registers, but they are accessed as 32-bit (edi, ...). > > Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > > > Well it should atleast bite for functions that have 2 char arguments. > > Perhaps > > none of the tests are using these routines.. > > > > Satish > > > > On Wed, 2 May 2018, Jed Brown wrote: > > > >> Is the length passed in registers and incorrectly using the lower half > >> of the register provides the int part? > >> > >> Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >> > hm - I have gfortran-8 on my laptop - but haven't seen any testsuite > >> > regressions due to this change. > >> > > >> > Satish > >> > > >> > On Wed, 2 May 2018, Jed Brown wrote: > >> > > >> >> See Fortran Language Issues. > >> >> > >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html > >> >> > >> >> We'll have to test for this (probably compiler version) and change the > >> >> PETSC_MIXED_LEN / PETSC_END_LEN to use size_t instead of int. > >> >> > >> >
