GMP 4.2 make check failures

[Samuelson, Gary M]

Thanks for the assistance.  Using ABI=32 resulted in all the 'make check' tests passing.

Comments:
Of course, I intended to download the latest release.
I have no explanation for getting 4.2, rather than 4.2.4.
I'm not even sure which site it came from.

I checked, as advised in the online manual, Known Build Problems and Notes for Particular Systems, and did not find any reference to the ELF error.

As for searching the mailing lists, I don't see a search tool.
The output from 'make check' invited me to send a report, so I did.

Again thanks for the help.

Regards,
Gary Samuelson

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Glisse [mailto:marc.glisse at normalesup.org] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:17 AM
To: Samuelson, Gary M
Cc: gmp-bugs at swox.com
Subject: Re: GMP 4.2 make check failures

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Samuelson, Gary M wrote:

> GMP version 4.2

Is this 4.2 As in 4.2.0? This is a really old version, you should get 4.2.4, assuming that 4.3.0 is not out yet.

> ld.so.1: t-bswap: fatal: /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: wrong ELF class:
> ELFCLASS32

You should really check the archives of the mailing list. gcc comes with broken specs by default. Ways to work around it include modifying these specs, adding -R/usr/local/lib/sparcv9 to LDFLAGS, defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64, using crle, etc. But my guess is that you are actually more interested in the 32 bit version of gmp, so you could try:
ABI=32
export ABI
./configure ...

Note that the 64 bit version is currently faster if you want to use gmp for intensive computation.

(I am a bit surprised that the 32 bit version can't be made almost as fast, since from what I understand both have access to the same instructions, as I was reminded reading: 
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=90305&tstart=0
but I know the people who wrote the gmp code know much more than I do about this, and the 32 bit code already uses 64 bit instructions in some
places)

> SPROcc          Sun Studio 11 C Compiler
>                 (sparc) 11.0,REV=2005.10.13

Does it have the latest patches?
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/ss11_patches.html

> mpn_get_d wrong on random data
>    sign     0
>    n        =0x1FF800FE007FC0
>    nsize    1
>    exp      -37
>    want     =[43 3F F8 00 FE 00 7F C0] 8998407423164352
>    got      =[40 EF F8 00 FE 00 7F C0] 65472.031006097327918
> FAIL: t-get_d

There, the archives of the mailing list suggest this is caused by an unsafe optimization triggered by the -fast flag in Sun Studio. I believe replacing -fsimple=1 with -fsimple=0 is enough to work around it, but it may be easier to just specify your own CFLAGS that don't include -fast.

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Marc Glisse