GNU bug report logs - #29033
new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.32-4606

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Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: 29033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29033: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.32-4606
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:09:16 -0700

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> wrote:
> On AIX 7.1, with xlc, in 64-bit mode, 1 test fails: unpack-valid.
> Logs attached.

Thanks a lot. This appears to have afflicted a few other types of systems, too.

This test used `printf '\x1f\x1e...' >test.z` to create a test input,
but some versions of printf fail to handle hexadecimal escapes in the
format string. Here's the fix I've pushed:

[printf-unpack-valid.diff (text/plain, attachment)]
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