Re: Fwd: Re: [Platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.12.178-df9cd

[Markus Duft]

On 09/08/11 10:17, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Markus Duft wrote:
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>>
>> gcc is 4.2.4 and there is no chance to get a newer one to work
>> currently (i have big problems forward porting my patches). but i
>> /think/ it's the library support anyway thats broken. it seems to be
>> somewhere in the printing (fprintf, sprintf). if i run an unpatched
>> "seq 1 10", i get this:
>>
>> mduft coreutils-8.12.193-d8dc8 $ ./src/seq 1 10
>> 0
>> 0
>> -2
>> 0
>> -0
>> -2
>> -26815615859885194199148049996411692254958731641184786755447122887443528060147093953603748596333806855380063716372972101707507765623893139892867298012168192
>> 0
>> -0
>> -0
>>
>> in [1], Bruno Haible suggested some test from the gnulib test-suite,
>> with which i can investigate the problem more deeply, which i'm now
>> doing (as time allows).
> 
> Please pursue that first.
> If improving the printing or conversion functions in gnulib
> can solve your problem, then making changes to coreutils would
> be counterproductive.

problem solved without requirement for a patch here: i patched gcc to have 
64bit long doubles, and now all works like a charm.

sorry for the noise.

regards, markus

> 
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