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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [libgo] Account for 32-bit fds_bits on Solaris 2
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcraagbs2dy.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yddei5njo16.fsf@manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> (Rainer Orth's	message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:41:09 +0200")

Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

> While debugging why several libgo tests on Solaris 2/SPARC were hanging
> in select (cf. PR go/48242, go/48243), I found that fd_set is
>
> typedef struct fd_set {
>         long    fds_bits[__howmany(FD_SETSIZE, FD_NFDBITS)];
> } fd_set;
>
> The current implementation of the FD* funcs in sysfile_posix.go assumes
> 64-bit fds_bits.  While this doesn't make a difference on little-endian
> hosts, on big-endian SPARC the wrong bits are set, leading to the
> observed hang since there is no activity on those random fds.
>
> The following patch fixes this by moving the FD* implementation to two
> new sysfile_fdset{32, 64}.go files to fix this.  There's almost
> certainly a cleaner/shorter implemenation, but this worked for me.
> While the affected tests don't hang anymore now, they still don't finish
> successfully, among others due to PR go/48222.

What an annoying problem.  Sorry about that.  But why don't we just
change to byte?

Ian

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-31 15:50 Rainer Orth
2011-03-31 16:05 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2011-03-31 16:12   ` Rainer Orth
2011-03-31 20:09   ` Richard Henderson
2011-03-31 20:12     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-03-31 20:53 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-04-01  7:53   ` Rainer Orth
2011-04-01 22:54     ` Ian Lance Taylor

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