[pypy-dev] s390x the last failing tests

[David Edelsohn]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:12 AM, Richard Plangger <planrichi at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I wanted to give a quick update on the state of the implementation. Good
> news! I think there is not that much left to be done!
>
> I'm currently waiting for a bigger VM (already wrote an email to
> linux1 at us.ibm.com, 2 days ago? They are maybe on holiday?) to translate
> the full project.
>
> There are approx. 20 Failing tests that are left (own-linux-s390x). All
> other pass on my virtual machine. They are mostly related to big endian
> issues. Here are some questions:
>
> 1) Generally I got the impression that there are some tests that do not
> consider endianess (e.g. micronumpy). I guess it is time to change them
> to handle this? What about PPC? Did those not come up there?
>
> 2) It seems that the gcc on the build bot is quite old? It can for
> instance not assemble the instruction LAY (load address), but the VM I
> got (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)) is able to. As soon
> as I can get my hands on a Debian machine that is configured similarly I
> can say more (end of Jan?).

The default GCC on the buildbot is GCC 5.2
gcc version 5.2.1 20150911 (Debian 5.2.1-17)

I just updated Binutils on the system in case something was out of date.

I can try translating on the buildbot, if you wish.

- David