Hi, On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 20:34, Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 pending > > Greetings, > > I tried to investigate the issue of running SweeD autopkgtests > on arm64. It turned out to be caused by the assumption that the > "char" type was "signed" by default, while it is "unsigned" by > default at least on arm64. The patch I added makes several > targeted changes, so that the test suite goes through without > either crashing (segfault) or hanging (infinite loop). > > I also tried to ensure test results were unchanged compared to > other CPU architectures, and as far as I could see, they the > same on arm64 (with the patch) and on amd64 (without the patch). > > Changes are available on Salsa for review: > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sweed > > Thanks Paul for having reported the issue, and Thanks Nilesh for > having written the test suite that allowed to catch the bug! :) > Thanks a lot! Uploaded! Kind Regards Nilesh