Re: gzip use of memcpy

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Alain Magloire wrote: > Bonjour, Bonjour Alain ! Bonne anneƩ ! It's been too long ;-) > The behavior of memcpy is well defined: > > "Copying overlapping buffers isn't guaranteed to work; use memmove() to > copy buffers that overlap" > > In our case for the SH architecture we have a version of me

[PATCH] tests: switch to gnulib's init.sh test infrastructure

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Meyering
I've just switched gzip's few test-lib.sh-using tests to use init.sh from gnulib: >From 1b3081d92a10bf8bfb9697c179e81b1f5c760bff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:18:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: switch to gnulib's init.sh test infrastructure * tests/test-li

Re: gzip 1.3.14: test-suite failing

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter Wong wrote: > Hello: > I'm seeing following error when I ran the 'make check'. This is on 1.3.14. > Here's steps I took: > ./configure > make > make check > My system spec: x86 linux 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 Thanks for the report. That's a very old system. In case you'd like to test the very

new snapshot available: gzip-1.3.14.24-1b30

2010-01-08 Thread Jim Meyering
So far it's been mostly infrastructure changes. gzip snapshot: (.gz files are here, too) http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-ss.tar.xz 596 KB http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-ss.tar.xz.sig http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.24-1b30.tar.xz There are .gz and .sig files here, too: http://peopl

RE: gzip use of memcpy

2010-01-08 Thread Alain Magloire
> From: Jim Meyering [mailto:j...@meyering.net] > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:56 PM > To: Alain Magloire > Cc: bug-gzip@gnu.org > Subject: Re: gzip use of memcpy > > Alain Magloire wrote: > > Bonjour, > > Bonjour Alain ! Bonne anneƩ ! > It's been too long ;-) > 8-) Yes, I agree. My best w

RE: gzip 1.3.14: test-suite failing

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Wong
Hello Jim: The latest snapshot you sent works fine on my linux 2.6 machine. Thanks very much for your help!! -peter -Original Message- From: Jim Meyering [mailto:j...@meyering.net] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 11:09 AM To: Peter Wong Cc: bug-gzip@gnu.org Subject: Re: gzip 1.3.14: test-su