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7 VDS Example Tests Fail on Big Endian Machines #4069

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hyoklee opened this issue Mar 5, 2024 · 2 comments
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7 VDS Example Tests Fail on Big Endian Machines #4069

hyoklee opened this issue Mar 5, 2024 · 2 comments
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Component - Testing Code in test or testpar directories, GitHub workflows Priority - 1. High 🔼 These are important issues that should be resolved in the next release Type - Improvement Improvements that don't add a new feature or functionality
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1.14.4

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hyoklee commented Mar 5, 2024

Describe the bug

CTest fails on big endian machines.
They are 7 VDS example tests.

Expected behavior

All tests pass.

Platform (please complete the following information)

  • HDF5: develop branch
  • OS and version: 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.ppc64
  • Compiler and version: gcc
  • Build system (e.g. CMake, Autotools) and version: ctest-3.29.0-rc2

Additional context

https://my.cdash.org/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=2511204
@derobins derobins added Merge - To 1.14 Priority - 1. High 🔼 These are important issues that should be resolved in the next release Component - Testing Code in test or testpar directories, GitHub workflows Type - Improvement Improvements that don't add a new feature or functionality labels Mar 5, 2024
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derobins commented Mar 5, 2024

These tests fail because the tests use H5T_NATIVE_INT for the dataset's type, which we then diff with the output from a little-endian machine. It's easily fixed by specifying a little-endian type for the dataset.

@derobins derobins added this to the 1.14.4 milestone Mar 7, 2024
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derobins commented Mar 7, 2024

Fixed in #4070

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