On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Peter Gibbs via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christoph Otto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <perl6-internals@perl.org> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 6:43 PM > Subject: Re: [perl #57260] [BUG] Segfaults in sprintf opcode > > >> Will Coleda wrote: >>> >>> Once we get a core parrot test for this, we can close out the ticket. >>> Thanks! >> >> I tried writing a test to exercise this, but the test fails and I have >> no idea >> why. I've attached the patch for anyone who cares to add sufficient >> magic to >> make the test pass. > > The current logic in sprintf.t does not handle multiple arguments in the > data. I started on something to handle a simple array, but there are > other tests defined in sprintf_tests with more complicated expressions > inside square brackets, so it was more work than I had time for. > > We need either a full parser for the perl-style tests, or a simpler test > harness that doesn't try to do the perl-specific stuff. > > Regards > Peter Gibbs > > >
In the meantime, adding a test file called, say sprintf_ext.t would allow us to write a test and close out this ticket. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
