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Failure of tests/prim-bigstring/{big,}string.ml on big-endian architectures #6630

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vicuna opened this issue Oct 27, 2014 · 5 comments
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vicuna commented Oct 27, 2014

Original bug ID: 6630
Reporter: @glondu
Assigned to: @mshinwell
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2016-12-07T10:49:23Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Version: 4.02.1
Target version: 4.02.2+dev / +rc1
Fixed in version: 4.02.2+dev / +rc1
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Tags: patch
Monitored by: @gasche @yallop

Bug description

The aforementioned tests fail (at least) on powerpc and s390x (which are big-endian). The diff makes me think about an endianness issue.

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$ wdiff testsuite/tests/prim-bigstring/string_access.{reference,result}
1234 [-12-] {+3400+} 0
fedc [-fe-] {+dc00+} 0
12345678 [-123456 1234-] {+34567800 56780000+}
fedcba09 [-fedcba fedc-] {+dcba0900 ba090000+}
1234567890abcdef [-1234567890abcd 1234567890ab-] {+34567890abcdef00 567890abcdef0000+}
fedcba0987654321 [-fedcba09876543 fedcba098765-] {+dcba098765432100 ba09876543210000+}
$ wdiff testsuite/tests/prim-bigstring/bigstring_access.{reference,result}
1234 [-12-] {+3400+} 0
fedc [-fe-] {+dc00+} 0
12345678 [-123456 1234-] {+34567800 56780000+}
fedcba09 [-fedcba fedc-] {+dcba0900 ba090000+}
1234567890abcdef [-1234567890abcd 1234567890ab-] {+34567890abcdef00 567890abcdef0000+}
fedcba0987654321 [-fedcba09876543 fedcba098765-] {+dcba098765432100 ba09876543210000+}

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vicuna commented Oct 27, 2014

Comment author: @glondu

After a deeper look, the testcase is faulty here: it assumes the caml_*string_getN primitives are portable. Looking at their C implementation, they are not.

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vicuna commented Feb 24, 2015

Comment author: cwsolee

I find the same problem with RHEL 7 on zLinux, roughly when will this be resolved? Or if dev branch has the fix, I could give it a try too.

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vicuna commented May 7, 2015

Comment author: @chambart

I uploaded a patch, but couldn't test it on big-endian architectures.

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vicuna commented May 7, 2015

Comment author: @mshinwell

I will try to do it

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vicuna commented May 19, 2015

Comment author: @mshinwell

I agree that the testsuite seems at fault, since it's the one doing the offsetting into the bigstring.

Tested on a big-endian POWER7 Linux system (which of course is currently only supported by OCaml in a 32-bit environment).

Also tested on x86-64 Linux.

Committed to 4.02.

@vicuna vicuna closed this as completed Dec 7, 2016
@vicuna vicuna added this to the 4.02.2 milestone Mar 14, 2019
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