Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Problem when executing iconv on ARM

[Hamid A. Toussi]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is not normal that libiconv gives different results on different
> platforms (except for the wchar_t encoding, which is determined by
> the libc).
>
> As a first step: can you show an example of a conversion that
> succeeds on x86 and fails on ARM? I mean the file fa.txt (as an attachment,
> or as a hexdump) and the options passed to 'iconv'.
>

The input file is attached and as an example:
iconv -f UTF-8 -t char fa.txt

> Second, how did you build libiconv (which configure arguments, $CC,
> $CPPFLAGS, $CFLAGS)?
>

It was very straightforward:

export CC=arm-linux-gcc
./configure --host=arm-linux --prefix=some_dir

> Third, does the problem go away if you compile with less optimization
> options (-O0 instead of -O2, for example)?
>

No change. Results are the same when I build as follows:

export CFLAGS=-O0
./configure --host=arm-linux
make

Thanks,
Hamid


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