[Lazarus] UTF8LengthFast returning incorrect results on AARCH64 (MacOS)

[Marc Weustink]

On 27-12-2021 22:10, Noel Duffy via lazarus wrote:
> On 28/12/21 01:47, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 1:44 AM Noel Duffy via lazarus <
>> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I need some help getting to the root of a problem with incorrect results
>>> on Apple hardware (M1, aarch64) for the function UTF8LengthFast in 
>>> lazutf8.
>>>
>>> On MacOS, when given a string containing one or more UTF8 characters,
>>> UTF8LengthFast returns wildly incorrect results. On Fedora, the function
>>> returns the correct answer.
>>>
>>
>> You mean both MacOS and Fedora run on the same aarch64 CPU?
> 
> Oh no, Fedora runs on an Intel x86_64. I don't think there's a Fedora 
> that runs on aarch64. I included the results from Fedora just to show 
> that the code does work in some places.

I've tried on pine64 aarch64 linux little-endian fpc 3.2.0 and it showed 
the correct results using your example code in another mail

Marc
> 
>> It must be a Big endian / Little endian issue. IIRC it can be adjusted in
>> ARM CPUs.
>> Why do MacOS and Linux use a different setting there? I have no idea.
> 
> Well, as Florian said above, the M1 is little-endian. So it doesn't 
> appear to be an endian issue.
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/porting-your-macos-apps-to-apple-silicon 
> 
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