From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8330 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2011 23:04:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 8321 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2011 23:04:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (HELO mail-out.m-online.net) (212.18.0.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:03:51 +0000 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8921C08DEE; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:03:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: lsaYbmyNVZRuWXK4Yi3cgjVm9RwaqFtQ7G39B7Ozxfo= Received: from linux.local (ppp-88-217-127-201.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.127.201]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 723BF1C0004F; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:03:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6F80A1E52E5; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:03:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Tom Tromey , Marc Khouzam , "'gdb\@sourceware.org'" Subject: Re: How to properly check for regressions? References: <20110804223924.GA29692@host1.jankratochvil.net> X-Yow: How's it going in those MODULAR LOVE UNITS?? Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20110804223924.GA29692@host1.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:39:24 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 Jan Kratochvil writes: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:51:10 +0200, Tom Tromey wrote: >> Our buildbot automates all this -- but I suspect somewhat poorly, >> because Jan is constantly finding regressions I didn't see. > > I just use `diff -u' on gdb.sum files. See also contrib/compare_tests in the gcc repo. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."