Re: [PATCH] test-progress: fix test failures on big-endian systems

> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:38:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> The testsuite is failing again on s390x and all other big-endian targets in
>> Debian. For a full build log on s390x see [1].
> 
> Gah, my progress display fixes strike again...
> 
> I think the patch below should fix it, but I could only test it on
> little-endian systems.  Could you please confirm that it indeed works
> on big-endian as well?
> 
> 
>   --- >8 ---
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] test-progress: fix test failures on big-endian systems
> 
> In 't0500-progress-display.sh' all tests running 'test-tool progress
> --total=<N>' fail on big-endian systems, e.g. like this:
> 
>   + test-tool progress --total=3 Working hard
>   [...]
>   + test_i18ncmp expect out
>   --- expect	2019-10-18 23:07:54.765523916 +0000
>   +++ out	2019-10-18 23:07:54.773523916 +0000
>   @@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
>   -Working hard:  33% (1/3)<CR>
>   -Working hard:  66% (2/3)<CR>
>   -Working hard: 100% (3/3)<CR>
>   -Working hard: 100% (3/3), done.
>   +Working hard:   0% (1/12884901888)<CR>
>   +Working hard:   0% (3/12884901888), done.
> 
> The reason for that bogus value is that '--total's parameter is parsed
> via parse-options's OPT_INTEGER into a uint64_t variable [1], so the
> two bits of 3 end up in the "wrong" bytes on big-endian systems
> (12884901888 = 0x300000000).
> 
> Change the type of that variable from uint64_t to int, to match what
> parse-options expects; in the tests of the progress output we won't
> use values that don't fit into an int anyway.
> 
> [1] start_progress() expects the total number as an uint64_t, that's
>     why I chose the same type when declaring the variable holding the
>     value given on the command line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---
>  t/helper/test-progress.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/helper/test-progress.c b/t/helper/test-progress.c
> index 4e9f7fafdf..42b96cb103 100644
> --- a/t/helper/test-progress.c
> +++ b/t/helper/test-progress.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void progress_test_force_update(void);
>  
>  int cmd__progress(int argc, const char **argv)
>  {
> -	uint64_t total = 0;
> +	int total = 0;
>  	const char *title;
>  	struct strbuf line = STRBUF_INIT;
>  	struct progress *progress;
>