From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3733 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2002 16:02:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3564 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2002 16:02:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duracef.shout.net) (204.253.184.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2002 16:02:03 -0000 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gB3G1vr30353; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:01:57 -0600 Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:02:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200212031601.gB3G1vr30353@duracef.shout.net> To: drow@mvista.com, fnasser@redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/testsuite] make annota1 regexps more generous Cc: carlton@math.stanford.edu, ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, kevinb@redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 David Carlton wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how many unexpected failures should I be > getting? I'm usually getting 100 or so, which seems like an > unfortunately large number to me: either GDB has lots of regressions, > or the testsuite is misdiagnosing passes as failures, or there are > lots of FAILs that should be changed to XFAIL. I'm hoping that many > of them are misdiagnoses; maybe I'll spend some time looking at that > when I'm not teaching and when I'm sick of symbol tables. Short answer: 50 to 100 at this point in history. Long answer: it depends a lot on the compiler and the debug format. See http://www.shout.net/~mec/sunday/2002-11-25/index.html and then look at the "Counts" table for the counts that I am getting. Michael C