From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29235 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2007 22:25:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 29226 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2007 22:25:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from network-theory.com (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:25:36 +0000 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87vei1pwo2.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: test failure -- [was Re: test release gsl-1.8.90.tar.gz] In-Reply-To: <20070216174539.GJ923@austin.ibm.com> References: <873b57h9dg.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> <20070215232437.GA12060@hippogriff.physics.drexel.edu> <20070216170459.GF923@austin.ibm.com> <20070216174539.GJ923@austin.ibm.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 77b5c1f04851ff9fa15059ebaa033149 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 At Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:45:39 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > make[2]: Entering directory `/kernels/tools/gsl-1.8.90/vector' > > FAIL: gsl_vector_char_ispos on negative vector stride=1, N=10 [518] > > FAIL: gsl_vector_char_isneg on negative vector stride=1, N=10 [519] > > FAIL: gsl_vector_char_ispos on negative vector stride=2, N=10 [1295] > > FAIL: gsl_vector_char_isneg on negative vector stride=2, N=10 [1296] > > > > I wasn't able to immediately determine what the problem was. > > Aren't chars always unsigned, and therefore can't be negative? > > Yet the test case seems to be trying to assign a negative value > > to a char, unless I misunderstood the testcase. Thanks, I overlooked that. char is unsigned on Power, signed on intel. I will make a note to run all the tests with -funsigned-char as well in future. -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd, Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/