Bug#580334: perl (armel/experimental): FTBFS: op/range.t failure

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:59:51AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.12.0-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.12-transition

>  perl -e '"-2" =~ /(.+)/; @foo=(); push @foo, $_ for $1..undef; print @foo ? "ok\n" : "not ok\n"'
> 
> Compiling sv.c with -O0 instead of -O2 fixes it, so it may well be a
> compiler bug.  Will investigate more.

Bisecting with
 #pragma GCC optimize ("0")

shows the function that breaks is Perl_sv_2iv_flags().

All tests pass without -Dusemorebits, which is equivalent to -Duse64bitint
-Duselongdouble. Most probably it's -Duse64bitint that breaks. I'll test
that next.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org