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Error in the num library #4984

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vicuna opened this issue Feb 21, 2010 · 4 comments
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Error in the num library #4984

vicuna opened this issue Feb 21, 2010 · 4 comments
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vicuna commented Feb 21, 2010

Original bug ID: 4984
Reporter: @glondu
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2010-04-18T08:46:03Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: block
Version: 3.11.2
Fixed in version: 3.12.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Hello,

An error in the num library makes some checks of coq's test-suite fail on the sparc port of Debian [1]. It boils down to:

$ ocaml nums.cma
Objective Caml version 3.11.2

open Num;;

let pow10 n = power_num (Int 10) (Int n);;

val pow10 : int -> Num.num =

string_of_num (pow10(-1) */ (Int 1) +/ Int 1);;

  • : string = "11/5"

which is obviously wrong. The same session on amd64 gives:

$ ocaml nums.cma
Objective Caml version 3.11.2

open Num;;

let pow10 n = power_num (Int 10) (Int n);;

val pow10 : int -> Num.num =

string_of_num (pow10(-1) */ (Int 1) +/ Int 1);;

  • : string = "11/10"

It looks like a consequence of commit 9320 (by doligez) in ocaml svn.

FYI, the sparc port of Debian is actually sparc64, but is detected as 32 bits by the configure script of ocaml [2].

Additional information

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=coq&arch=sparc&ver=8.2.pl1%2Bdfsg-5&stamp=1266762797&file=log&as=raw

[2] https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=ocaml&arch=sparc&ver=3.11.2-1&stamp=1265611860&file=log&as=raw

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vicuna commented Feb 21, 2010

Comment author: @glondu

I've been told that it is a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userland, actually.

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vicuna commented Feb 24, 2010

Comment author: @xavierleroy

I have an old Sparc running an old version of Debian Linux, but it doesn't exhibit the problem: "11/10" is obtained. Moreover, commit 9320 affects only input_value on big ints, so I don't think it is related. I would rather suspect a change in gcc that could have exposed a problem in the Sparc-specific inline assembly.

If you're willing to test some more, you could start by turning off the Sparc-specific asm: just edit the toplevel "configure" file to remove the line that reads

sparc) bng_arch=sparc; bng_asm_level=1;;

Then you can rebuild OCaml as usual and see if the problem is still there. Do keep me informed of the results.

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vicuna commented Feb 24, 2010

Comment author: @glondu

Indeed, the same bug exists with the commit mentioned in the initial report reverted.

The bug disappears after commenting out the said line in configure.

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vicuna commented Apr 18, 2010

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Thanks for the test. Turned off selection of SPARC asm for BNG in configure. Better slower than wrong.

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