Re: Failure of the xxx test on s390x

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> When trying to run the Lua test suite for 5.4.6 on IBM zSystem
> (with either SUSE SLE-15 or openSUSE/Tumbleweed), I get this test
> failing (line 355 of testes/calls.lua):
> 
>   do   -- another bug (since 5.2)
>     -- corrupted binary dump: list of upvalue names is larger than number
>     -- of upvalues, overflowing the array of upvalues.
>     local code =
>      "\x1b\x4c\x75\x61\x54\x00\x19\x93\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a\x04\x08\x08\x78\x56\z
>       \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x28\x77\x40\x00\x86\x40\z
>       \x74\x65\x6d\x70\x81\x81\x01\x00\x02\x82\x48\x00\x02\x00\xc7\x00\x01\z
>       \x00\x80\x80\x80\x82\x00\x00\x80\x81\x82\x78\x80\x82\x81\x86\x40\x74\z
>       \x65\x6d\x70"
>   
>     assert(load(code))   -- segfaults in previous versions
>   end

This test is *extremely* non-portable. The best option to handle it
is to remove it. (That's what we did.)

-- Roberto