On 31 Jan 2012, at 20:35, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>>> The 'make check' gives this error, on OS X 10.7.2 using the compiler >>>> i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 supplied by Xcode 4.2.1: >>>> >>>> PASS: test-asmobs >>>> bad return from expression `(f-sum -1 2000 -30000 40000000000)': expected >>>> 39999971999; got 39999972255 >>> >>> I may be stating the obvious here, but the -1, which is declared to be >>> of type 'scm_t_int8' in the C function being called, is apparently being >>> interpreted as 255. This suggests that whatever is handling its >>> promotion to a full int is failing to extend its sign bit. I'm guessing >>> that this is libffi's job. >> >> It is broken (libffi from GIT, the only that works on OX 10.7): > > You need to install DejaGnu in order to run libffi's test suite. > <http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/>
With gcc-4.7.0 (from SVN), the test-ffi test now passes (libffi from GIT), but I get three other failures. The compiler that is normally used on the system, is llvm-gcc-4.2, and its compile is still running. Hans Running bytevectors.test FAIL: bytevectors.test: 2.3 Operations on Bytes and Octets: bytevector-sint-ref [small] (eval) FAIL: bytevectors.test: 2.3 Operations on Bytes and Octets: bytevector-sint-ref [small] (compile) ... Running gc.test FAIL: gc.test: gc: Unused modules are removed ... Totals for this test run: passes: 34886 failures: 3 unexpected passes: 0 expected failures: 30 unresolved test cases: 29 untested test cases: 1 unsupported test cases: 9 errors: 0 FAIL: check-guile ================================== 1 of 1 test failed Please report to bug-guile@gnu.org ==================================