[dmd-internals] dmd/32 + windows server 2012 ==> test failures?

[Daniel Murphy via dmd-internals]

Yeah.  I'm going to have a go at tracking down what's failing, but if
I can't I'll merge those pull requests.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Good.  I'm not surprised, but glad to have confirmation.  See bug 13821 that
> I filed earlier.  It references druntime pull 150 where there was code added
> specifically for win 2008 support.  See the two pull requests I created a
> little while ago.  I'll bet good money that applying them in your vm will
> result in passing tests (obviously just hiding the underlying issue).
>
>
> On 12/4/2014 8:08 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>
>> Looks like I can reproduce the crash (or at least a crash) in the
>> druntime unittests running on a 2012 vm.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Brad Roberts via dmd-internals
>> <dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, the two tests that fail are the fiber + exception tests:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/core/thread.d#L4897
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/core/thread.d#L4943
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/4/2014 12:48 PM, Brad Roberts via dmd-internals wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone else build dmd 32 bit environment on windows server 2012?
>>>> I've been having trouble doing so and it's blocking my efforts to help
>>>> get ddmd moving forward on windows.
>>>>
>>>> The problem I'm seeing is that the druntime unittest fails.  Digging
>>>> into them it looks like it's the core.thread tests.  My windows
>>>> debugging experience is close to 0, and windbg is.. interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Before I spend more time, is anyone else running successfully in the
>>>> same environment?  Or even better, can anyone else duplicate my results?
>>>>
>>>> The details of my env:
>>>>     ec2 c1.medium windows instance in a vpc
>>>>     running ami-a13d6891 (Windows_Server_2012-R2 ... 2014.11.19)
>>>>
>>>>     dm857c.zip -- from downloads.dlang.org/other/
>>>>
>>>>     dmd, druntime, phobos from tip of master on Nov 26
>>>>        (the tree was nice and green)
>>>>
>>>> It shouldn't matter, but for completeness, I'm in a cygwin environment,
>>>> but with dmc's toolchain at the head of the path and properly setup in
>>>> sc.ini.
>>>>
>>>> The win/32 tester is a windows 2008 server.  The win/64 tester is
>>>> windows 2012.  I see this problem on both the existing win/64 tester
>>>> (started with a much older ami but current with windows updates so
>>>> should be very similar to the above ami) and a brand new instance spun
>>>> up specifically to dig into this problem (with exactly the above ami).
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to keep digging, but some confirmation of success or failure
>>>> by anyone else would be useful info.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Brad
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