[Python-Dev] test_datetime fails on alpha

[Neal Norwitz]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 06:30:34PM -0600, Jeff Epler wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:04:40PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> > [Neal Norwitz]
> > > I used the alpha in the SF compile to verify the bug.  The problem was
> > > originally reported on the snake-farm from the test suite.
> > >
> > > >>> from datetime import timedelta
> > > >>> timedelta(1, 7, 31)
> > > datetime.timedelta(1, 7, 31)
> > > >>> _.days, _.seconds, _.microseconds
> > > (30064771073, 133143986183, 31)
> > 
> > It's really no help.  The *first* thing to do is to build Python with
> > optimzation disabled.  Try a debug build, if possible, and step thru
> > delta_new().  Luckily, that's the hairiest code in the whole module <wink>.
> > 
> > Putting the "wrong parts" in hex, that result is
> > 
> > (0x700000001L, 0x1F00000007L, 31)
>      ^                      ^  (0x1F)
>                    ^^           ^^
> > which suggests nothing to me.
> 
> something is sure suggested to me by those numbers.  It's as though
> successive members are 4 bytes apart, but they're being treated as 8 bytes
> wide, or something.

That kept bugging me.  I just checked in the fix.  The problem was the
accessors members for days, seconds, and microseconds were T_LONGs
instead of T_INTs.

Test passes on alpha & x86 for me.

Neal