Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Paul, Thanks for applying a fix so quickly. On 9 Mar 2013, at 00:47, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/08/2013 09:15 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > >> ../../tests/test-xvasprintf.c: In function 'test_xasprintf': >> >> ../../tests/test-xvasprintf.c:98: warning: for

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/08/2013 11:50 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > But appears to say nothing about the case when FLT_RADIX _is_ a power of > 2, yet the result is not exactly representable. Ah, sorry, you read the spec more carefully than I did. I agree with your analysis.

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/08/2013 10:47 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > OK, thanks, it looks like the gnulib test is being too picky: > it's insisting on round-to-even but POSIX says the rounding > is implementation-defined. Mac OS should probably be rounding > to even but that's not our job. I pushed the following pat

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/08/2013 09:15 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > ../../tests/test-xvasprintf.c: In function 'test_xasprintf': > > ../../tests/test-xvasprintf.c:98: warning: format not a string literal and no > format arguments That looks like a bogus warning. Hope you can i

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Paul, Thanks for the quick response. On 9 Mar 2013, at 00:04, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/08/2013 08:43 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> Anything else I can do to help fix this? > > Can you tell us what my_asprintf is putting into 'result'? If I print result just before the failing assert, stdo

Re: Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/08/2013 08:43 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Anything else I can do to help fix this? Can you tell us what my_asprintf is putting into 'result'? To be honest, though, this test shouldn't matter for M4, so perhaps you should just disable it.

Test failure on Mac OS 10.8.2

2013-03-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi, I'd like to make a new stable release of GNU M4, but make distcheck is failing in the gnulib tests: = GNU M4 1.4.17: tests/test-suite.log = # TOTAL: 163 # PASS: 151 # SKIP: 11 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 1 # X