[pypy-dev] ctypes tests

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think we could decide by now what to do with the remaining 34 @xfail
> tests of ctypes.  It seems nobody noticed that we don't really
> implement the full CPython-2.7-compatible ctypes.  (As far as I'm
> concerned, it adds "features" mostly in the form of more and more
> obscure special cases.)  So what do you say about being fine with the
> current 2.5-compatible situation and silencing the failure on
> buildbot?
>
>  http://buildbot.pypy.org/summary/longrepr?testname=unmodified&builder=pypy-c-jit-linux-x86-32&build=1159&mod=lib-python.2.7.test.test_ctypes
>
> (Note that there are two failures in the link above.  We never noticed
> when a second failure appeared in addition to the classical xfail one.
>  If anything, it shows that the current situation is bogus.)
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
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Hi

There are multiple bug reports about missing features in ctypes. Can
you look if they're relevant to failures or not?

Cheers,
fijal