Bug#807038: Perl 5.22.1-RC3 is now available!

[Craig A. Berry]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:17:44PM +0000, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:
>
>> ***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.22.1-RC3.
>> This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
>> v5.22.1 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.22.1 than
>> for v5.22.2!
>
> Hi, we're seeing t/op/sprintf2.t failures on Debian powerpc and ppc64.
>
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=powerpc&ver=5.22.1~rc3-1&stamp=1449230321
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=ppc64&ver=5.22.1~rc3-1&stamp=1449231009
>
> I've reproduced these with the pristine 5.22.1-RC3 (no Debian
> modifications) and just './Configure -des'.  (Please ignore the 'Commit
> id' below, it comes from our separate git repo.)
>
> t/op/sprintf2 ................................................. # Failed test 1463 - at op/sprintf2.t line 671
> #      got '0x1p+1020
> # '
> # expected /(?^:^0x1.0{522}1p\+1020$)/
> # Failed test 1464 - at op/sprintf2.t line 673
> #      got '0x1p+1021
> # '
> # expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}8p\+1021$)/
> # Failed test 1465 - at op/sprintf2.t line 675
> #      got '0x1p+1022
> # '
> # expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}4p\+1022$)/
> # Failed test 1466 - at op/sprintf2.t line 677
> #      got '0x1p+1023
> # '
> # expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}2p\+1023$)/
> # Failed test 1467 - at op/sprintf2.t line 679
> #      got '0x1p+1023
> # '
> # expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}1p\+1023$)/
> # Failed test 1468 - at op/sprintf2.t line 681
> #      got '0x1p+1023
> # '
> # expected /(?^:^0x1.0{524}8p\+1023$)/
> FAILED at test 1463

FWIW, on Darwin PPC these tests are skipped:

ok 1463 # skip darwin doublekind=4
ok 1464 # skip darwin doublekind=4
ok 1465 # skip darwin doublekind=4
ok 1466 # skip darwin doublekind=4
ok 1467 # skip darwin doublekind=4
ok 1468 # skip darwin doublekind=4

What does Debian PPC show for:

% ./perl -Ilib -V:doublekind
doublekind='4';

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