Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken 4.9.0rc1 fails test on OpenBSD 5.4

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Alexander,

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:25:59 +0200 "Alexander Shendi" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have (somewhat belatedly) tested CHICKEN 4.9.0rc1.
> * OS: OpenBSD/amd64 5.4 (RELEASE)
> * C-Compiler: clang-3.3 (from packages)
> * Install runs OK. Invocation "gmake PREFIX=/usr/local/ PLATFORM=bsd 
> C_COMPILER=clang install" 
> * "sudo chicken-install pastiche" works.
> * Tests fail. Invocation "gmake PREFIX=/usr/local/ PLATFORM=bsd 
> C_COMPILER=clang check" 
> * See attached "typescript.txt" for details.

Thanks for reporting this issue.  I can reproduce it on OpenBSD/amd64
5.4 with clang 3.3.  I can't reproduce it using gcc 4.2.1 on the same
platform.

apply-tests work as expected when interpreted, but crashes when compiled
(as shown by your log).

Although apply-tests.scm prints

  If this segfaults on x86-64, try updating GCC (4.5 has a
  code-generation bug)

, I'm afraid it may be related to CHICKEN.  We are not running GCC 4.5
and the compiled apply-tests does work _sometimes_ (just compile
apply-tests.scm and run it a couple of times -- most of times it crashes
but sometimes it works).

I think this issue deserves some investigation before we release 4.9.0.

Again, thanks for testing and reporting your findings.

Best wishes.
Mario
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