Re: [rfa/testsuite] make annota1 regexps more generous

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-12-03T16:02:11Z

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