Python-3.2 (SVN) bug [was syntax question]
Mark Dickinson
dickinsm at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 10:09:22 EDT 2009
On Oct 12, 7:55 am, Helmut Jarausch <jarau... at igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
wrote:
> I wrote
> I'm trying to build the recent Python-3.2a (SVN).
> It fails in
> Lib/tokenize.py (line 87)
[...]
> with: TypeError: group() argument after ** must be a mapping, not tuple
I believe I've found the source of this problem: the --with-tsc
configure option enables some buggy inline assembly: see the
READ_TIMESTAMP macro in Python/ceval.c. This uses the constraint
"A" for the output of the x86 'rdtsc' instruction; for x86 that's
fine, but for x86_64 it apparently refers to the 'rax' register,
which is wrong: rdtsc loads its result into the edx and eax
registers. So the edx register ends up being clobbered without
gcc knowing about it, and all hell breaks loose as a result.
So it is a Python bug, not a compiler bug. I've updated the
bug report, and the bug should be fixed soonish.
Thanks for reporting this, and for whittling the failure down
to the --with-tsc configure option!
Mark
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