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

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: reassign -1 r-base-core 4.2.2.20221110-1
Control: retitle -1 r-base should be built with -ffloat-store on i386
Control: affects -1 src:r-cran-xts
Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/-/merge_requests/3

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:57:24PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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`.
> > 
> > `-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.

I've created a merge request and I am reassigning this bug now.

cu
Adrian