On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> The 2.6.0 issues:
>
> I have just now (revision 8497) put in a bug fix recommended by  
> Brad King
> (both for branches/test_cmake/test_ada and trunk) which solves all  
> 2.6.0
> issues for a static build of the Ada libraries.  However, there are
> remaining 2.6.0 rpath issues for the build tree that do not occur  
> for 2.4.8.
> Those issues currently screw up the 2.6.0 ctest of the Ada examples  
> (unless
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to work around them), but do not affect the
> install-tree tests of Ada.
>
> General Ada issues occurring for both 2.4.8 and 2.6.0:
>
> (1) Example 19 generates the following run-time error message:
>
> raised STORAGE_ERROR : stack overflow (or erroneous memory access)
>
> This is for both the thick and thin 19th examples built on Linux  
> with gnatmake
> (installed with the Debian testing 4.1.2-8 version of gnat-4.1):
>
> Jerry, I hope you also see that STORAGE_ERROR on Mac OS X so
> that you can debug it locally rather than remotely through me.
>
> Because of this error I had to temporarily remove example 19 from
> plplot_test/test_ada.sh.cmake and examples/ada/Makefile.examples.in.
>
> (2) examples 2, 5, 12, 16, and 18 give different results than the
> corresponding C examples.  Perhaps there are enough of these  
> differences
> now so that Jerry can spot the reason(s) for them.  Ultimately, we  
> want
> no differences between the Ada and C results for the standard  
> examples.

Ada example 18 gives the same results on my machine as C 18. How many  
differences are you seeing? Or what are the visible differences?
>
> General example 21 problem for all front ends:
>
> Example 21 also gives different Ada and C results, but this is a  
> general
> issue with example 21 for all front-ends because of differences in the
> external random-number generators being used and in their execution  
> times.
>
> We need a volunteer to step forward to change example 21 in C so  
> that it
> uses a simple random number generator that is internal to the example
> (perhaps something extremely simple but reasonably effective if you  
> pick a
> "good" seed such as the middle square method described at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-square_method) and also so that
> execution times are not made part of PLplot labels.  Once these  
> changes were
> propagated to the rest of the front ends, this should hopefully  
> make example
> 21 results uniform for all front-ends.
>
> Alan
> __________________________


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