On 08/26/2014 06:35 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:49:14PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Hence I wonder if there is something a matrix that shows deficiencies in
testing coverage, which will give people like myself a quick list of
platforms we could fire up in a VM (or old hardware we could
beg/borrow/steal/ebay)
The problem is that the interesting platforms that aren't getting tested
are those for which you can't just spin up another VM. In particular I'm
thinking of Solaris on Sparc, and Irix.
Irix is an especially interesting platform, both for CPAN authors and
p5p, because it doesn't so much have a compiler as a complier. Back when
I was testing on it I found quite a few dodgy assumptions being made
about data types. And one of these days I'll get round to buying another
Irix machine. One day.
And any Sparc64 or PPC64 would be appreciated. Esp. for parrot smokes we
are missing big big-endian machines.
qemu, better their bios for the harddisc simulation is not stable enough
there.
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