Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-22 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Friday, September 22, 2006, at 08:38AM, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 9/21/06, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Well, to be strictly anal, while the result of >> >> (size_t)-123 >> >> is defined, the result of casting /that/ back to a signed type of the >> same w

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 9/21/06, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, to be strictly anal, while the result of > > (size_t)-123 > > is defined, the result of casting /that/ back to a signed type of the > same width is not defined. Maybe your compiler was "doing you a > favor" ;-) I also tried with a ca

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Jack Diederich
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:23:54PM -0700, Neal Norwitz wrote: > On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I should leave the tounge-in-cheek bombast to Tim and Frederik, especially > > when dealing with what might be an OS & machine specific bug. The next > > checkin and re-tes

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Tim Peters
[Neal Norwitz] > It looks like %zd of a negative number is treated as an unsigned > number on OS X, even though the man page says it should be signed. > > """ > The z modifier, when applied to a d or i conversion, indicates that > the argument is of a signed type equivalent in size to a size_t. > "

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I should leave the tounge-in-cheek bombast to Tim and Frederik, especially > when dealing with what might be an OS & machine specific bug. The next > checkin and re-test will or won't highlight a failure and certainly someone > with a g4 wi

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Jack Diederich
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 06:09:41AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > Jack Diederich schrieb: > > Faced with the choice of believing in a really strange platform specific > > bug in a commonly used routine that resulted in exactly the failure caused > > by one of the two files being updated or bel

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Jack Diederich schrieb: > Faced with the choice of believing in a really strange platform specific > bug in a commonly used routine that resulted in exactly the failure caused > by one of the two files being updated or believing a failure occurred in the > long chain of networks, disks, file syst

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
On 9/21/06, Grig Gheorghiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:28:04PM -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > > > On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The python binary is out of step with the test_iterto

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:28:04PM -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > > On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The python binary is out of step with the test_itertools.py version. > > > You can generate this same error on your

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Jack Diederich
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:28:04PM -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote: > On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The python binary is out of step with the test_itertools.py version. > > You can generate this same error on your own box by reverting the > > change to itertoolsmodule.c but

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The python binary is out of step with the test_itertools.py version. > You can generate this same error on your own box by reverting the > change to itertoolsmodule.c but leaving the new test in test_itertools.py > > I don't know why this only

Re: [Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

2006-09-21 Thread Jack Diederich
The python binary is out of step with the test_itertools.py version. You can generate this same error on your own box by reverting the change to itertoolsmodule.c but leaving the new test in test_itertools.py I don't know why this only happened on that OSX buildslave On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:34