PPC Mac OS X validate: Unexpected failures: derefnull(normal) and divbyzero(normal)

[Clemens Fruhwirth]

At Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:00:47 +0200,
Thorkil Naur <naur at post11.tele.dk> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Running validate on a PPC Mac OS X with the current (2007-08-11) HEAD 
> produces:
> 
> > OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Sat Aug 11 15:23:58 CEST 2007
> >     1842 total tests, which gave rise to
> >     7193 test cases, of which
> >        0 caused framework failures
> >     5643 were skipped
> >
> >     1483 expected passes
> >       65 expected failures
> >        0 unexpected passes
> >        2 unexpected failures
> >
> > Unexpected failures:
> >    derefnull(normal)
> >    divbyzero(normal)

Might be caused by switching to the NCG. Could you try to rerun these
test with a RTS compiled with -fvia-c? Just add 

SRC_HC_OPTS += "-fvia-c"

to the end of rts/Makefile, then "make clean; make libHSrts.a" in
rts. Feel free to ask for more detailed instructions in case something
is unclear.
-- 
Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org