Re: Test failure with negative substring offsets

[İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi;

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 23 May 2011 17:10, Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is now failing:
> >
> > ./D04parameter.ztst: starting.
> > *** /tmp/zsh.ztst.err.18663     Mon May 23 15:58:07 2011
> > --- /tmp/zsh.ztst.terr.18663    Mon May 23 15:58:07 2011
> > ***************
> > *** 1 ****
> > ! (eval):2: substring expression: 3 < 5
> > --- 1 ----
> > ! (eval):2: substring expression: 3 < 0
> > Test ./D04parameter.ztst failed: error output differs from expected as
> shown above for:
> >   foo="123456789"
> >   print ${foo:5:-6}
> > Was testing: Regression test for total length < 0 in string
> > ./D04parameter.ztst: test failed.
> > **************************************
> > 0 successful test scripts, 1 failure, 0 skipped
> > **************************************
> > make: *** [check] Error 1
> >
> > I'll wait for it to stop failing.  I'm guessing this is to do with
> > 29224.
>
> Odd,
> ./D04parameter.ztst: starting.
> ./D04parameter.ztst: all tests successful.
> **************************************
> 1 successful test script, 0 failures, 0 skipped
> **************************************
>

It passes for me on 64bit machines and fails on 32bit machines. Hope that
helps.

Regards,
ismail