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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <psprint3@fastmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: V11db_gdbm.ztst fails on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 03:47:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1488455260.47056.897968424.73CCAA35@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22600020-4905-4E9B-86DE-663907DBB39C@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017, at 02:52 AM, Jun T. wrote:
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -c
> -d
>  a
>  b
> +c
> +d
> 
> ${(k)dabse} gives 'a c', instead of 'c a' as expeced by the test.
 
> The order the records are visited by gdbm_{firstkey,nextkey}()
> depends on the hash values used by gdbm, and (due to some reason
> unknown to me) it seems the hash values used on Cygwin are different
> from those used on Linux.
(...)
> Is it really necessary to test that gdbm_{firstkey,nextkey}()
> gives the same order on different OSs?

Was counting on determinism here. A fragile thing, but determinism
should guarantee this. Wonder why Cygwin's gdbm flips order.

Any idea how to write test result so that both hash key orders match?
-- 
  Sebastian Gniazdowski
  psprint3@fastmail.com


  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-02 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-02 10:52 Jun T.
2017-03-02 11:47 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2017-03-02 11:54   ` Peter Stephenson
2017-03-02 11:54   ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-03-02 12:14     ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2017-03-02 15:16 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2017-03-02 23:56   ` Jun T.
2017-03-03 11:06   ` 淳一 滝本

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