[R-pkg-team] Bug#1024012: [joshuaulrich/xts] Unit test failure when running on i386 (Issue #384)

[Andreas Tille]

Am Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:49:24AM -0800 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> @tillea Confirmed by my testing is that the difference between failing and passing autopkgtest of `r-cran-xts` is whether `r-base-core` is from Debian unstable or from the same sources recompiled with `-ffloat-store`.
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> `-ffloat-store` would cost some performance for FPU code in R on i386, but given that it's 2023 this should not matter much since i386 is mainline vintage hardware (multiarch usecases shouldn't apply here).

I fully agree that users could live with performance issues on i386 since those who need performance will not use i386.
 
> I would guess this change might also help with similar issues in other packages, but that is just a guess.

I'd agree with reassigning this to r-base.