Re: Test suite failure for gettext's gnulib on ARMv7HL

[Kamil Dudka]

On Friday, August 7, 2020 9:18:31 PM CEST Bruno Haible wrote:
> [Dropping bug-gettext from CC]
> 
> Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > > One of these lines must modify its contents. The question is: where?
> > > 
> > >     msg4 = strerror (1729576);
> > 
> > I believe it is this ^^^ line.
> 
> Could it be related to this change in glibc 2.32?
> 
>   * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
>     calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be
> invalided or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same
> thread or if the thread is terminated.  It makes strerror MT-safe.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=28aff047818eb17263942
> 96d27b9c7885340bead
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=725eeb4af14c6fec4ed2
> 6a796cdfd6d50df86d42
> 
> But still, why do you observe the test failure only on one architecture and
> not also on all the others? Maybe the TLS stuff is not working right on ARM?
> 
> Bruno

I believe this has been fixed with the following commit:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=175e0bc7

Thanks!

Kamil