Bug#950008: gfan: assertion fails on riscv64

[Torrance, Douglas]

Control: forwarded -1 jensen at imf.au.dk

Hello!

I am forwarding the bug report below from the Debian package of gfan:

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:33 AM Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: gfan
> Version: 0.6.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> many of sagemath's doctests in the interface to gfan fail on riscv64 with the following error:
>
> gfan_*: src/application.cpp:42: char* tail(char*): Assertion `*p==*m' failed.
>
> It looks like the pointer arithmetic in the function tail() in application.cpp does not work like this on riscv64. Unfortunately there are no porterboxes for riscv64 yet, so I can't come up with a minimal example triggering the bug.
>
> Best,
> Tobias