[pypy-dev] Current failures

[Ben.Young at risk.sungard.com]

pypy-dev-bounces at codespeak.net wrote on 08/09/2005 17:53:40:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> Thanks for tirelessly reporting Windows failures :-)
> Which exact Windows are you using, BTW?
> 

That's alright :) I wish I could do more to actually fix the issues, but 
by the time I get home from work a can barely stand to even look at a 
computer if you know what I mean! I'll stop reporting errors / questions 
if it gets too tiresome for you all.

For your information i'm running PyPy on cygwin on XP Pro, which probably 
exercises a slightly different set of issues to straight windows.

P.S Do you have any plans to make annotation/translation more robust, as 
it seems it is very easy to introduce SomeObjectness without knowing, and 
even of annotation succeeds, successful translation is not guaranteed (or 
am I talking rubbish?)

Cheers,
Ben



> The link failures should be resolved.  They are due to the unsetenv()
> built-in missing on Windows, but still present in os.py -- faked,
> implemented in pure Python as os.setenv(xxx, '').  This caused all parts
> of the translation to assume that there was an unsetenv() built-in, but
> the C include files at the end didn't actually define it because CPython
> doesn't define HAVE_UNSETENV.
> 
> The rounding errors are more tricky.  We could of course just use an "is
> almost equal" comparison, but still we are a bit clueless (though
> Christian is digging).
> 
> 
> Armin
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