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Test failures in version 3.37.0 on big endian architectures

(1) By Reinhard Max (reimax) on 2021-11-30 13:39:05 [link] [source]

On all big endian architectures supported by openSUSE Tumbleweed the test suite of SQLite 3.37.0 shows this failure:

[  437s] ! windowB-2.0 expected: [{} 1 蕕郐䔓硑ᇍ䫎 1]
[  437s] ! windowB-2.0 got:      [{} 1 喅킐ፅ典촑칊 1]

Full build logs can be found here:

This does not happen with version 3.36.0 and not on any other architecture, especially not on PPC64LE, which is why I suspect an endianness problem.

(2) By Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever) on 2021-12-14 18:01:58 in reply to 1 [source]

Note about identification of location:

These tests are in file test/windowC.test, not test/windowB.test.

test/windowC.test was probably created by copying some parts of test/windowB.test, and test/windowC.test still contains:

set testprefix windowB

This should be changed to:

set testprefix windowC

Failing test was added in commit 38a1326b4bd11bbe2846990d099c28520d17ab4cace1af67248c2472f89df929.

This commit introduced call to function sqlite3_value_text() about which documentation says:

** ^The sqlite3_value_text16() interface extracts a UTF-16 string
** in the native byte-order of the host machine.  ^The
** sqlite3_value_text16be() and sqlite3_value_text16le() interfaces
** extract UTF-16 strings as big-endian and little-endian respectively.

This commit, in newly added test, included:

PRAGMA encoding=UTF16;

Some other syntactically valid values include:

PRAGMA encoding=UTF16LE;
PRAGMA encoding=UTF16BE;

On my little-endian system I get expected result 蕕郐䔓硑ᇍ䫎 with encoding UTF16 or UTF16LE, and I get result 喅킐ፅ典촑칊 with encoding UTF16BE.

Maybe changing this test to have PRAGMA encoding=UTF16LE; would be sufficient solution...

(3) By Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever) on 2021-12-21 20:55:44 in reply to 2 [link] [source]