Re: pma test hangs on MacOS

[Hermann Peifer]

Thanks for taking care.

> Please send me the ouptut of build-aux/config.guess;
aarch64-apple-darwin21.6.0

Regards, Hermann

On 29/09/2022 08.42, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Thanks for the report. This is pretty strange, as on my Intel macbook
> pro, also running Monterey, it works just fine!
>
> Please send me the ouptut of build-aux/config.guess; I will disable
> pma on ARM macbooks until Terrence Kelly can look into this.
>
> Thanks for the details attachments, I'm sure they'll be helpful.
>
> Arnold
>
> Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu> wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I just started using gawk from git on a rather recent MacBook (Monterey,
> > arm64). I noted that the pma test hangs with gawk running endlessly,
> > using 100% CPU. More info below.
> >
> > Regards, Hermann
> >
> >
> >   > ./gawk -V | head -1
> > GNU Awk 5.2.0, API 3.2, PMA Avon 7-g1, (GNU MPFR 4.1.0, GNU MP 6.2.1)
> >
> >   > make check
> > ...
> > mpfruplus
> > mpgforcenum
> > ======== Done with MPFR tests ========
> > ======== Starting PMA tests ========
> > gcc makepmafile.c -o makepmafile
> > pma
> > ^C
> > make[3]: *** [pma] Interrupt: 2
> > make[2]: *** [pma-tests] Interrupt: 2
> > make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Interrupt: 2
> > make: *** [check] Interrupt: 2
> >
> >
> >
> > # Looks like the first run goes fine, but the second run hangs
> >
> >   > cat test/_pma
> > 1
> >   >
> >
> >
> >
> > # Additional test inspired by the gawk manual, error output attached
> >
> >   > truncate -s 4G data.pma
> >
> >   > PMA_VERBOSITY=3 GAWK_PERSIST_FILE=data.pma ../gawk 'BEGIN { print ++i
> > }' 2>err.1
> > 1
> >   > PMA_VERBOSITY=3 GAWK_PERSIST_FILE=data.pma ../gawk 'BEGIN { print ++i
> > }' 2>err.2
> > ^C