From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32194 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2007 06:01:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 32186 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jan 2007 06:01:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:01:36 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H73rS-00053o-5X; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:01:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:01:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI failures related to string printing Message-ID: <20070117060126.GB19331@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200701121351.29310.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <20070116204407.784494F6C7@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17837.29931.145384.679968@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17837.29931.145384.679968@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00378.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:59:23PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote: > > Don't you think that a test that randomly fails depending on compiler > > version and the address at which the binary happens to load is completely > > useless. > > It has value because it doesn't fail for everyone. Sorry, Vladimir is correct. A test which fails intermittently (and even if it's consistent for some people that doesn't change the fact that this is a fundamentally intermittent problem) is not a good test. > By keeping the previous results and comparing them. I always get many fails > when I run the testsuite. I am working on eliminating every single one of those failures; please do not add more. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery