[Rd] R, AIX 64-bit builds - trying to understand root cause for message: "Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!"

Michael Felt aixtools at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 16:14:54 CET 2015


On 2015-12-30 09:58, Michael Felt wrote:
> On 2015-12-29 11:02, Michael Felt wrote:
>> This seems to be a problem that goes back a long time - and I hope 
>> someone who understands what tre is suppossed to be doing will look 
>> at this.
>>
>> A short history of other people who have reported on this on 
>> different versions of AIX. I shall only add that I get the same 
>> results on AIX 5.3 TL7, AIX 6.1 TL9 and AIX 7.1 TL3.
>>
>> Basically, with settings that work for AIX and 32-bit - the only 
>> changes being
>> -maix32 becomes -maix64
>> and
>> export OBJECT_MODE=32 becomes export OBJECT_MODE=64
>>
>> Then to shorten the 'make' bla bla, first run just make, then
>>
>> cd src/library/tools
>> make -s sysdata
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/38817/match=package+tools+malformed 
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/36886/match=package+tools+malformed 
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/23372/match=package+tools+malformed 
>> Date: 2010-01-25 06:55:41 GMT (5 years, 48 weeks, 1 day, 20 hours and 
>> 30 minutes ago)
>>
>> To that, to get debug data, I have
>>
>> * added -DTRE_DUGUG to src/extra/tre/Makefile # ALL_CFLAGS = 
>> $(ALL_CFLAGS_LO) -DTRE_DEBUG
>> * rm src/extra/tre/tre-match-parallel.o
>> * find . -name \*.so -exec rm {} \;
>> * make
>> * cd src/library/tools
>> * make -s sysdata
>>
>> Attached are the two script files of the screen output. The 32-bit 
>> one is more verbose - and contains magically lines such as:
>>    found match 3037fd14 (while "found" does not occur in the 64-bit 
>> output)
>>
>> root at x069:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-aix-3.2.3/src/library/tools]wc 
>> /tmp/sysdata.??.*
>>      4730   14123  139916 /tmp/sysdata.32.text
>>      1312    3688   40528 /tmp/sysdata.64.text
>>      6042   17811  180444 total
>>
>> root at x069:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-aix-3.2.3/src/library/tools]grep -c 
>> found /tmp/sysdata.??.*
>> /tmp/sysdata.32.text:19
>> /tmp/sysdata.64.text:0
>>
>>
>> Hope this brings us (or me), closer to a resolution to an old concern.
>>
>> And, best wishes for the new year!
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
> Still hoping for someones curiosity/willingness.
>
> The differences show up in the first comparision that is made (of the 
> string "3.2.3" it seems) - 32-bit is on the left, 64-bit on the right.
>
> Script command is started on Tue Dec 29 08:39:16 UTC 
> 2015.                     |  Script command is started on Tue Dec 29 
> 08:39:56 UTC 2015.
> root at x069:[/data/prj/cran/32/R-aix-3.2.3/src/library/tools]make -s 
> sysdata     |  
> root at x069:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-aix-3.2.3/src/library/tools]make -s 
> sysdata
> installing 
> 'sysdata.rda'                                                       |  
> installing 'sysdata.rda'
> tre_tnfa_run_parallel, input type 
> 1                                            |  tre_tnfa_run_parallel, 
> input type 1
> length: 
> -1                                                                     
> |  length: -1
> pos:chr/code | states and 
> tags                                                 |  pos:chr/code | 
> states and tags
> -------------+------------------------------------------------                 
> |  -------------+------------------------------------------------
>  init > 30380200 3038014c 
> 30380098                                             |   init > 
> 110cc3040 110cc2f28 110cc2e10
> match end offset = 
> -1                                                          |  match 
> end offset = -1
> tre_tnfa_run_parallel, input type 
> 1                                            |  tre_tnfa_run_parallel, 
> input type 1
> length: 
> -1                                                                     
> |  length: -1
> pos:chr/code | states and 
> tags                                                 |  pos:chr/code | 
> states and tags
> -------------+------------------------------------------------                 
> |  -------------+------------------------------------------------
>  init > 
> 3037fb88                                                               
> |   init > 110cc3310
>   0: 3/00051 | 
> 3037fb88/0:0                                                    |    
> 0: 3/00051 | 110cc3310/0:0
>   1: ./00046 | 
> 3037fb88/0:0                                                    |    
> 1: ./00046 | 110cc3310/0:0
>  init > 
> 3037fb88                                                               
> |   init > 110cc3310
>   1: ./00046 | 
> 3037fb88/0:1                                                    |    
> 1: ./00046 | 110cc3310/0:1
>   2: 2/00050 | 
> 3037fb88/0:1                                                    |    
> 2: 2/00050 | 110cc3310/0:1
> assertion 
> failed                                                               
> |  assertion failed
>  init > 
> 3037fb88                                                               
> |   init > 110cc3310
>   2: 2/00050 | 3037fc18/0:1 
> 3037fb88/0:2                                       |    2: 2/00050 | 
> 110cc33f0/0:1 110cc3310/0:2
>   3: ./00046 | 3037fc18/0:1 
> 3037fb88/0:2                                       |    3: ./00046 | 
> 110cc33f0/0:1 110cc3310/0:2
> assertion failed                           *** DIFFERENCE 
> ***                  |   init > 110cc3310
>  init > 
> 3037fb88                                                               
> |    3: ./00046 | 110cc3310/0:3
>   3: ./00046 | 3037fc18/0:1 
> 3037fb88/0:3                                       |    4: 3/00051 | 
> 110cc3310/0:3
>   4: 3/00051 | 3037fc18/0:1 
> 3037fb88/0:3                                       |  assertion failed
> assertion 
> failed                                                               
> |   init > 110cc3310
>  init > 
> 3037fb88                                                               
> |    4: 3/00051 | 110cc33f0/0:3 110cc3310/0:4
>   4: 3/00051 | 3037fc18/0:3 
> 3037fb88/0:4                                       |    5: /00000 | 
> 110cc33f0/0:3 110cc3310/0:4
>   5: /00000 | 3037fc18/0:3 3037fb88/0:4 |   init > 110cc3310
>   found match 3037fd14 *** DIFFERENCE ***                   |  match 
> end offset = -1
> match end offset = 5 *** DIFFERENCE ***                   |  
> tre_tnfa_run_parallel, input type 1
> tre_tnfa_run_parallel, input type 
> 1                                            |  length: -1
> length: 
> -1                                                                     
> |  pos:chr/code | states and tags
> pos:chr/code | states and 
> tags                                                 |  
> -------------+------------------------------------------------
> -------------+------------------------------------------------                 
> |   init > 110cc4780 110cc4668 110cc4550
>  init > 303811c0 3038110c 
> 30381058                                             |  match end 
> offset = -1
> match end offset = 
> -1                                                          |  
> tre_tnfa_run_parallel, input type 1
> tre_tnfa_run_parallel, input type 
> 1                                            |  length: -1
> length: 
> -1                                                                     
> |  pos:chr/code | states and tags
> pos:chr/code | states and 
> tags                                                 |  
> -------------+------------------------------------------------
> -------------+------------------------------------------------                 
> |   init > 110cc5700 110cc55e8 110cc54d0
>
One day further - looks like tre_compile (or just before, after all).

With TRE_DEBUG switched on in tre-compile.c and tre-ast.c I see (snip)

--- /tmp/x.32   2015-12-31 15:09:44.000000000 +0000
+++ /tmp/x.64   2015-12-31 15:09:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- Script command is started on Thu Dec 31 15:04:39 2015.
- root at x069:[/data/prj/cran/32/R-aix-3.2.3/src/library/tools]make sysdata
+ Script command is started on Thu Dec 31 15:08:43 2015.
+ root at x069:[/data/prj/cran/64/R-aix-3.2.3/src/library/tools]make sysdata
   installing 'sysdata.rda'
   echo 
"tools:::sysdata2LazyLoadDB(\"/data/prj/cran/R-3.2.3/src/library/tools/R/sysdata.rda\",\"../../../library/tools/R\")" 
| \
     R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_ALL=C ../../../bin/R --vanilla --slave
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
   initial: 1/1,0, assert 0
   initial: 0/0, assert 0
   initial: 0/0, assert 0
- final state 30370718
+ final state 110cba530
   tre_compile: parsing '(^|[^%])(%%)*%V'
   AST:
   catenation, sub 0, 0 tags
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
           assertions: bol
           union, sub -1, 0 tags
             literal (, $) (0, 36), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
-           literal (&, M-^?) (38, 65535), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
+           literal (&, M-^?) (38, -1), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
         iteration {0, -1}, sub -1, 0 tags, greedy
           catenation, sub 2, 0 tags
             literal (%, %) (37, 37), pos 1, sub -1, 0 tags
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
   Union
   Literal 0-36
   After union left
- Literal 38-65535
+ Literal 38--1
   After union right
   After union right
     num_tags += 2
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
           assertions: bol
           union, sub -1, 0 tags
             literal (, $) (0, 36), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
-           literal (&, M-^?) (38, 65535), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
+           literal (&, M-^?) (38, -1), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
         iteration {0, -1}, sub -1, 2 tags, greedy
           catenation, sub 2, 1 tags
             literal (%, %) (37, 37), pos 1, sub -1, 1 tags
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
   Union
   Literal 0-36
   After union left
- Literal 38-65535
+ Literal 38--1
   After union right
   After union right
   tre_add_tag_right: tag 3
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
             catenation, sub -1, 0 tags
               union, sub -1, 0 tags
                 literal (, $) (0, 36), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
-               literal (&, M-^?) (38, 65535), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
+               literal (&, M-^?) (38, -1), pos 0, sub -1, 0 tags
               tag 4

It seems in 32-bit mode -1 is unsigned (65535) but -1 == -1 in 64-bit mode.

I suspect I will "find it" - but a proposed change is appreciated.

Happy New Year,
Michael



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