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Nicholas Clark
Date:
June 28, 2007 01:39
Subject:
Re: Are PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE smokes useful?
Message ID:
20070628083859.GV18077@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:01:39AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:

> You may have seen that I've now slotted in a smoke to test with 
> -DPERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE using VC6 on Wednesdays. (I arranged for it to 
> test that option instead of the uselargefiles option, rather than 
> instead of the ithreads option as I had originally suggested.)
> 
> And it's immediately found a problem in the Compress::Raw::Zlib tests:
> 
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/2007/06/msg48735.html
> 
> Verbose output of the failure follows. Any ideas?

> Compress::Raw::Zlib::Inflate::inflate input parameter cannot be 
> read-only when ConsumeInput is specified at 
> ../ext/Compress/Raw/Zlib/t/07bufsize.t line 96.
> ok 40 -   total_in == 0
> ok 41 -   total_out == 0
> # Looks like you planned 288 tests but only ran 41.
> # Looks like your test died just after 41.
> dubious
>         Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> DIED. FAILED tests 42-288

No. I had a did a while back and was stuck. I was aware of it:

http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/31454
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/31120

Nicholas Clark

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