[Bug 459016] Review Request: bunny - Instrumented C code security fuzzer

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--- Comment #5 from Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com>  2008-10-24 03:29:17 EDT ---
>     + You could consider adding CHANGES to %doc as it gives an indication of
>       the direction the project is taking.
> 
> Done

I think you forgot to add it. :-)

> xx - ExcludeArch is needed
>      The upstream page (http://code.google.com/p/bunny-the-fuzzer/) says:
>      "Bunny is currently known to support Linux, ... on IA32 and IA64
>      systems."
>      One should note that IA64 is different from x86_64 or amd64. So it would
>      be a good idea to cross-check whether IA64 has been mistakenly used to
>      refer to x86_64 or amd64, and whether x86_64 or amd64 is supported or not.
>      I think that x86_64 is supported since it seemed to work with gcc.x86_64.
>      In case IA64 has been mistakenly used, we should ExcludeArch ia64,
>      alongwith the other secondary architectures (ie., alpha, arm, s390, sparc)
>      which might not be supported.
> 
> From http://code.google.com/p/bunny-the-fuzzer/wiki/BunnyDoc 
> 
> """The only platforms known to work fine are Linux, flavors of BSD, and Cygwin
> on IA32 platforms. Support for 64-bit and other unix systems is not confirmed.
> There is no support for non-x86 architectures, although this requires very few
> tweaks to correct. """
> 
> so ia32 it works. ia64 and other non-x86 need to be excluded.

Although x86_64 is not ia32 bunny seems to work on Fedora 9 x86_64 for me. I am
not sure about this particular architecture.

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