Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz

[Peter Fales]

On Irix 6.5, we're still using gcc-2.95.3, but on Solaris 8 (both sparc and
x86) we're using gcc-3.4.6 and the same problem shows up there.  (However,
it does not show up on linux with gcc-3.4.6)

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:28:35PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Peter Fales <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I'm testing the latest coreutils snapshot (6.10.176-383b1) on several
> >> platforms and on three of them, the seq command is failing in "make check"
> >>
> >> On Solaris 8 (sparc), Solaris 8 (intel), and SGI Irix 6.2, the command;
> >>
> >>    src/seq 0.8 0.1 0.90000000000000000000
> >>
> >> prints
> >>
> >>    0.8
> >>
> >> On the other platforms (and with earlier releases of the seq command), it
> >> prints the expected:
> >>
> >>    0.8
> >>    0.9
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for the report.
> > I don't have access to any systems like that.
> > Can you (or anyone who does) debug it or give me temporary access?
> >
> > This is not a big deal.  If it can't be resolved quickly,
> > I'll just comment out that test and make the release.
> 
> Peter, what version of gcc are you using?
> 
> I built on an Irix-6.5 system using gcc-3.4.3, and that test passed.

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