The SysV IPC test must use the native integers

(long or short), also noted this in the msgsnd/semctl
documentation.  Reported in
To: perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject: [ID 20000302.006] [BUG 5.5.670 t/ipc_sysv.t] Fails 2,5,6 with 64bit on Linux
Message-Id: <20000302221503.EDF6E3830@athens.arena-i.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5498

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 081709a174..758b573374 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2462,10 +2462,10 @@ and C<IPC::Msg> documentation.
 =item msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS
 
 Calls the System V IPC function msgsnd to send the message MSG to the
-message queue ID.  MSG must begin with the long integer message type,
-which may be created with C<pack("l", $type)>.  Returns true if
-successful, or false if there is an error.  See also C<IPC::SysV>
-and C<IPC::SysV::Msg> documentation.
+message queue ID.  MSG must begin with the native long integer message
+type, which may be created with C<pack("l!", $type)>.  Returns true if
+successful, or false if there is an error.  See also C<IPC::SysV> and
+C<IPC::SysV::Msg> documentation.
 
 =item msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS
 
@@ -3874,9 +3874,11 @@ Calls the System V IPC function C<semctl>.  You'll probably have to say
 
 first to get the correct constant definitions.  If CMD is IPC_STAT or
 GETALL, then ARG must be a variable which will hold the returned
-semid_ds structure or semaphore value array.  Returns like C<ioctl>: the
-undefined value for error, "C<0 but true>" for zero, or the actual return
-value otherwise.  See also C<IPC::SysV> and C<IPC::Semaphore> documentation.
+semid_ds structure or semaphore value array.  Returns like C<ioctl>:
+the undefined value for error, "C<0 but true>" for zero, or the actual
+return value otherwise.  The ARG must consist of a vector of native
+short integers, which may may be created with C<pack("s!",(0)x$nsem)>.
+See also C<IPC::SysV> and C<IPC::Semaphore> documentation.
 
 =item semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS
 
diff --git a/t/lib/ipc_sysv.t b/t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
index 55d9ba197f..8485d5dca6 100755
--- a/t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
+++ b/t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
@@ -81,16 +81,9 @@ if ($Config{'d_msgget'} eq 'define' &&
     my $test5bad;
     my $test6bad;
 
-    if ($Config{'use64bitall'} eq 'define') {
-      unless (msgsnd($msg,pack("L L a*",0,$msgtype,$msgtext),IPC_NOWAIT)) {
+    unless (msgsnd($msg,pack("L! a*",$msgtype,$msgtext),IPC_NOWAIT)) {
 	print "not ";
 	$test2bad = 1;
-      }
-    } else {
-      unless (msgsnd($msg,pack("L a*",$msgtype,$msgtext),IPC_NOWAIT)) {
-	print "not ";
-	$test2bad = 1;
-      }
     }
     print "ok 2\n";
     if ($test2bad) {
@@ -135,11 +128,7 @@ EOM
     }
 
     my($rmsgtype,$rmsgtext);
-    if ($Config{'use64bitall'} eq 'define') {
-      (undef,$rmsgtype,$rmsgtext) = unpack("L L a*",$msgbuf)
-    } else {
-      ($rmsgtype,$rmsgtext) = unpack("L a*",$msgbuf)
-    }
+    ($rmsgtype,$rmsgtext) = unpack("L! a*",$msgbuf)
     unless($rmsgtype == $msgtype && $rmsgtext eq $msgtext) {
 	print "not ";
 	$test6bad = 1;