Hi Uros,
>> I have committed a patch to update libgo to the 1.7rc3 release
>> candidate. This is very close to the upcoming 1.7 release. As usual
>> with libgo updates, the patch is too large to include in this e-mail
>> message. I've appended the changes to the gccgo-specific directories.
>
> There is an issue with
>
> libgo/go/crypto/sha1/issue15617_test.go.
>
> The test crypto/sha1 fails on alpha-linux-gnu with:
>
> --- FAIL: TestOutOfBoundsRead (0.00s)
> panic: invalid argument [recovered]
> panic: invalid argument
> ...
>
> since the test hard-codes 4k pages, but alpha uses 8k pages.
>
> It looks that the second line of build directives in the test:
>
> // +build amd64
> // +build linux darwin
>
> overwrites the first one, so the test runs also on non-amd64
> architecture linux OS. I have confirmed this by removing the second
> build directive, and crypto/sha1 test then passed, since
> issue15617_test.go was not linked into the final executable.
>
> Another possible solution is to avoid hard-coding 4k pages in the
> test. The mentioned test will pass on alpha when
>
> const pageSize = 4 << 10
>
> is changed to
>
> const pageSize = 8 << 10
just FTR, I've been seeing the same failure on Solaris/SPARC, which
uses 8k pages.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
