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From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>,        "'gdb\@sourceware.org'" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: How to properly check for regressions?
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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:53:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <m3ty9wyk75.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu,	04 Aug 2011 14:51:10 -0600")
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Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> writes:
>
> Marc> And how do I deal with tests that sometimes pass and sometimes fail.
>
> The most common approach is to learn what they are and ignore them.
> This isn't totally satisfactory; fixing them or removing them would be
> nicer.

At IBM I remember they had a list of "non-deterministic tests" in a wiki
page.  Maybe Thiago can confirm if this list still exists?  It would
probably be useful if we could create a similar list in our wiki?