On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > mark florisson, 28.07.2012 14:04: >> On 27 July 2012 23:30, Bradley Froehle wrote: >>> Thanks to the work of Yaroslav Halchenko, there is an experimental Debian >>> package for Cython 0.17.beta1 -- http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cython.html >>> >>> However, the builds are showing a lot of test failures on non-amd64 sytems. >>> See https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=cython&suite=experimental >>> Many of the errors seem related to assumptions made about the sizes of >>> various integers (int vs. long vs long long). Ideally we'll be able to >>> clean up these failures before the final release. >> >> Thanks, I think it's mostly the tests that are wrong. I'll try to get >> it fixed on linux 32 bit. > > I'm not sure the it's only the tests. The "char" vs. "unsigned char" errors > hint at platform specific differences, which might trigger bugs (aka. > incorrect assumptions) in the generated memory view code. Specifically, > plain "char" is unsigned at least on ARM and PowerPC, both of which fail > with this error.
Yes, I think somewhere we're assuming char is signed, but wasn't able to see where in my quick investigations. On another note, I updated jenkins to the latest release of Sage (5.2) and all seems well. - Robert _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
