Re: The state of the architectures

"Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:27:54 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
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Moving ppc32 from Good to Medium after I got another test result with some
regressions (PowerMac G4).

Cheers, Andreas


Am Sonntag, 26. Juli 2026, 19:22:41 Japanische Normalzeit schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> following the release, here's my somewhat subjective summary of the machine 
> testing results again.
> 
> Full info:
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.44#Build_and_test_results
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas
> 
> ============================================
> 
> 1) Perfect
> 
> * aarch64 (clean)
> * arm (1 FAIL on armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihft64)
>   The failure is a bug in our testsuite (test binary missing libgcc_s.so)
> * loongarch64 (1 FAIL)
>   The failure is a bug in our testsuite, fix has been posted.
> * ppc64 (clean)
> * s390x (clean)
> * x86 (clean)
> * x86_64 (clean)
> 
> ============================================
> 
> 2) Good 
> 
> * ppc32 (1 FAIL)
> * ppc64le (6 FAIL, 3 FAIL)
>   These are one and the same gcc maths problem.
> * riscv64 (1 FAIL, 6 FAIL)
>   Could be clean if not for an abovementioned bug in our testsuite, fix has been posted.
>   No analysis provided for the 6 FAIL on Debian.
> * sparc64 (5 FAIL)
> * x32 (2 FAIL)
>   From memory, known problems.
> 
> ============================================
> 
> 3) Medium
> 
> * hppa (10 FAIL, 2 FAIL, no regressions)
>   For hppa that's actually quite good.
> * mips n64 (11 FAIL)
>   Some of these are already getting adressed, so this is better than it seems
> 
> ============================================
> 
> 4) Bad
> 
> * alpha (881 FAIL)
>   Even if we ignore the many failing math tests (which are a known problem
>   unlikely to be fixed), there's still quite some breakage.
> * or1k (22 FAIL)
>   No analysis provided.
> * sparc32 (34 FAIL)
> 
> ============================================
> 
> 5) Nobody cares
> 
> * m68k
> * mips o32, n32
> * riscv32
> 
> 
> 


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PD Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel
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