4.3.1 test failures on alphaev56-dec-osf4.0g (Tru64)

[Torbjorn Granlund]

"Daniel Richard G." <skunk at iSKUNK.ORG> writes:

  Building GMP 4.3.1 on a Tru64 system with the vendor compiler and
  default flags (cc -fast -arch ev56 -tune ev56) leads to a number of
  test-suite failures:
  
  1 of 12 tests failed
  15 of 58 tests failed
  5 of 11 tests failed
  11 of 26 tests failed
  
  I will be happy to assist an investigation of these apparent bugs.
  
Apparently you've run into a lot of bugs...

This is one of two things:
1) Miscompile of one or several central GMP functions.
2) Incompatibilty related to the GMP assembly.

I suggest that you nail down one failure, mpz/t-tdiv.c might be the
best.  To do that, I'd follow these list:

1. Try without assembly.  Use "configure --host=none" in a pristine
   build dir.
2. Try with a static build, --disable-shared.
3. If it doesn't fail, we have an assmbly compatibility problem.
   Reenable assmbly.
4. Compile with as little optimisation as possible, but with debugging.
   I don't know how to do that using the OSF system compiler, but
   perhaps passing CFLAGS="-O0 -g" works.  If this doesn't fail,
   increas optimisation but keep -g.
5. Finally, fire up the debugger for t-tdiv

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Torbjörn