sangamesh added the comment:
These failures are specific to xlc compiler
In xlc signed bit fields will be mapped to unsigned by default as opposed to
gcc where the value stored in the bit field is of type declared.
so the the value returned by "func(byref(b), name)" positive in som
Changes by sangamesh :
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15791/bitfield.patch
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New submission from sangamesh :
I built the python-2.6.2 with the latest libffi-3.0.9 in AIX 5.3 using xlc
compiler.
When i try to run the ctypes test cases, two failures are seen in
test_bitfields.
test_ints (ctypes.test.test_bitfields.C_Test) ... FAIL
test_shorts
