From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: relying on testsuite results
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406195700.GA26188@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac60eac0904061232g44fe03f2ld850f5b8cbce95c2@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:32:51PM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> > I'd love to rely on testsuite results like this, but unfortunately there
> > are too many "non-deterministic testcases" (as I call them) and they add
> > a great deal of noise.
>
> Yes, they do.
> I think we should have a "fixit day", when everybody cleans them up.
I used to regularly do this, but it's basically impossible to keep up.
There are too many configurations and the testsuite is too
disorganized. I encourage other folks to try though...
The non-deterministic testcases can often be throttled down to the
point where they are reasonably likely to pass. I've fixed some of
the worst offenders.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 18:47 [0/2] Inspect extra signal information Pedro Alves
2009-01-12 18:49 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-12 18:52 ` [1/2] " Pedro Alves
2009-01-12 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-02 16:51 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-02 21:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-05 1:14 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-05 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-06 23:31 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-12 18:50 ` [2/2] " Pedro Alves
2009-01-12 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-13 12:32 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-13 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-13 19:08 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-13 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-06 23:35 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-09 6:23 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-02-09 22:17 ` Pedro Alves
2009-04-06 19:00 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-04-06 19:18 ` relying on testsuite results Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-04-06 19:33 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-04-06 19:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-04-06 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-06 20:22 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-04-07 14:57 ` [2/2] Inspect extra signal information Pedro Alves
2009-01-12 23:27 ` [0/2] " Mark Kettenis
2009-01-13 11:05 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-13 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-13 18:50 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-13 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-13 19:37 ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-13 19:47 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-02 14:40 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-02 20:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-02-03 15:02 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-03 16:42 ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-02-03 18:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-03 18:24 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-03 19:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-03 19:51 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-03 23:18 ` Doug Evans
2009-02-03 23:50 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-04 0:17 ` Doug Evans
2009-02-04 0:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-04 0:49 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-04 21:02 ` [3/2] Inspect extra signal information, handle amd64 bi-arch gdb Pedro Alves
2009-02-04 21:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-02-06 23:37 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-07 2:28 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-02-07 14:56 ` Pedro Alves
2009-02-07 16:14 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-02-04 22:07 ` Doug Evans
2009-02-03 18:23 ` [0/2] Inspect extra signal information Pedro Alves
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