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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- End of excerpt from Wichmann, Mats D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
