Re: test failure in 2.12

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 03/23/2012 02:18 AM, DAVID REISER wrote:

> I'm trying to build libtasn1 version 2.12, and one of the tests fails. In 
> test_indefinite, I get:
> 
> PASS: Test_errors
> PASS: Test_simple
> OK: asn1_get_length_der bignum
> OK: asn1_get_length_der intnum
> ERROR: asn1_get_length_der overflow (l 2147483647 len 5)
> FAIL: Test_overflow
> 
> version 2.11 builds without the error. Googling tells me that that function 
> was changed between 2.11 and 2.12, but I can't follow all the details.
> Mac OS X 10.7.3, clang from Xcode 4.3.1
> I also run into the Apple grep bug that causes "Regular expression too big" 
> bogus messages, but I can get around that with fink's grep. The 
> asn1_get_length_der error is the same, though.


Some possible reasons:
1. The test is using the installed libtasn1 instead of the compiled.
2. clang issue? Do you see any difference if you compile with gcc?

regards,
Nikos