Call for testers: libiberty/physmem.c

[Nix]

[moved from gcc-patches]
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi moaned:
> Now that the libiberty bits are installed, I'd like to see how many
> systems physmem.c works on.
> 
> So far these are my results:
> 
> Works?	Platform
> YES	sparc-solaris2.7
> YES	hpux11
> YES	x86-linux-gnu
> NO	mips-irix6.5
> 
> I've already worked out something with the *utils maintainer for
> irix6 which I'll import from upstream.
> 
> Given that x86-linux-gnu works, I'm assuming all linux-gnu does and
> probably all glibc systems in general.  But you never know.
> 
> If people would please link the code below against the most recent
> libiberty.a from the trunk and/or 3.3 and tell me the results I would
> appreciate it.  (Zeros are bad.)

Well, on sparc-unknown-linux-gnu (UltraSPARC II with a 32-bit userspace
and 512Mb of RAM), I see:

nix@amaterasu 325 /tmp% ./physmemtest 
total=497.445312Mb avail=6.593750Mb

so it seems to work indeed.

As expected, `avail' is almost totally useless, but the total is
certainly correct (modulo amount consumed by the kernel).

Now if someone will test on an uncommon platform (S/390? IA64?
MIPS/glibc, if that still works?) we can be sure...

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2003-02-01: the day the STS died.