Bug#673590: libxml-libxml-perl: FTBFS on s390x: Failed 1/51 test programs. 0/2419 subtests failed.

[Philipp Kern]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:37:00PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:22:58PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > you cannot reinterpret a size_t as an int.  size_t might be unsigned, might
> > have another length, etc.  On 64bit big endian you fill the top bits and
> > leave the lower ones untouched, because size_t is 64bit.  So yeah, that code
> > was broken.  (nbd had something similar, glib too. I don't know why it only
> > turns up with 64bit big endian.)
> Because on little endian 64bit, it touches the lower bytes.

Yeah, but that assumes that the other ones are 0?  Or ok, maybe it's just
working when going from size_t to int, because it's truncation, but it
shouldn't work for the other way round?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/attachments/20120520/110b48ad/attachment.pgp>