I've been able to reproduce the test failures you see with
32bit SPP.  Will take a look when I get the chance.

-chm




On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks for the report, Rob.
>
> I'll apply the strtoll patch for MSVC.  Not sure what the problems
> are in the t516.txt log but definitely want to resolve those issues
> before merging 64bit suppot into master.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> From: Chris Marshall
>>
>>
>>  This release makes generally available the new, 64bit
>>> index support for testing, evaluation, use, development
>>> and feedback.  The only difference from the current PDL
>>> git master branch is the introduction of a PDL_Index
>>> type that can be 64bits if your perl IV type is.
>>>
>>
>> Bit of a mixed bag for me, so far. (The following pertains only to builds
>> on MS Windows.)
>>
>> Many (all?) MS compilers need the attached patch to slices.pd.
>> Even those MS compilers that don't *need* the patch (if there are any)
>> should accept that patch ok.
>> I don't know how to apply that fix to the relevant git repo version of
>> slices.pd. (Presumably we don't want to alter the slices.pd that's in the
>> main branch just yet.)
>>
>> One thing I did notice is that the fftw and minuit test scripts don't
>> check for $Config{WITH_FFTW} and $Config{WITH_MINUIT}.
>> Consequently those test scripts were being run against the installed
>> version of those modules - and failing, of course.
>> I'll fix those 2 test scripts in the main branch when I get a chance (if
>> no-one does it beforehand).
>>
>> Other than that, my perls whose ivsize is 8 tested fine - but I haven't
>> yet had a chance to broaden the field to include any additional modules.
>>
>> My perls whose ivsize is 4 don't fare so well. Attached is the output
>> (gzipped) of running 'dmake test' with 32-bit perl-5.16.0. (The tests fare
>> pretty much the same with 5.8.8 - which is as far back as I go.)
>>
>> Hope to get a chance to take a closer look at this soon - but I have
>> limited opportunities for that over the next 4 or 5 days.
>> In the meantime, maybe the attached files are of some assistance to you.
>>
>> More later.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
>>
>>
>
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