Issue 460357: test_time fails on Sparc64 (original) (raw)

Issue460357

Created on 2001-09-10 15:58 by loewis, last changed 2022-04-10 16:04 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (7)
msg6489 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2001-09-10 15:58
On Solaris8, with the WS6U1 compiler, after setting CC to 'cc -xarch=v9', test_time.py fails with File "Lib/test/test_time.py", line 46, in test_mktime time.mktime, (999999, 999999, 999999, 999999, File "/vol/marvin-vol8/loewis/python/dist/src/Lib/unittest.py", line 273, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: OverflowError The problem is that the test doesn't overflow. Instead, it gives the value 34214554704339.0.
msg6490 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2002-04-03 09:34
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 This was reported for alpha as well, as #538369.
msg6491 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2002-04-03 09:39
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Assigned to Barry, since Tim assigned #538369 to Barry.
msg6492 - (view)	Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) *	Date: 2002-04-03 19:27
Logged In: YES user_id=31435 Raised priority and changed Group to 2.2.1 candidate. We can't assume that time_t is too feeble to represent the date being tested, and Barry should rework the test so that it doesn't fail on 64-bit boxes (I recall that he wanted to test *something* here for Mailman's purposes, so it's up to him to figure out what he really wants -- testing that the platform has a feeble time_t ain't it).
msg6493 - (view)	Author: Barry A. Warsaw (barry) *	Date: 2002-04-15 20:12
Logged In: YES user_id=12800 I'm inclined to remove the whole test. Certainly testing for OverflowError isn't useful (and if I ever thought it was, I can't remember why), so about the only useful thing I can think to test would be that a localtime() to mktime() roundtrip is idempotent. If we really wanted to test for OverflowError (or ValueError as the docs specify /could/ occur instead), then would using (sys.maxint,)*9 be better? That still seems icky to me.
msg6494 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2002-04-16 09:16
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Removing the test sounds good to me; feel free to close this report afterwards.
msg6495 - (view)	Author: Barry A. Warsaw (barry) *	Date: 2002-04-16 12:38
Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Done.