On Wed, 10 Sept 2025 at 15:41, Iain Sandoe <idsan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > On 10 Sep 2025, at 13:42, Christophe Lyon <christophe.l...@linaro.org> 
> > wrote:
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> > On Wed, 10 Sept 2025 at 12:23, Iain Sandoe <idsan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 10 Sep 2025, at 11:12, Richard Earnshaw (lists) 
> >>> <richard.earns...@arm.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 10/09/2025 10:54, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> >>>> If the results include several configurations (schedule of
> >>>> variations), do not report summary lines as duplicates.  Indeed with
> >>>> several configurations, it's likely that the results contain the same
> >>>>
> >>>>  # of expected passes            XXXXX
> >>>>
> >>>> The patch just keeps lines starting with test state prefix to avoid
> >>>> this problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> contrib/ChangeLog:
> >>>>
> >>>>     * compare_tests: Improve non-unique tests report when testing
> >>>>     several configurations.
> >>>
> >>> OK.
> >>
> >> Now we have this facility - and it is firing on my testboxes (since i use 
> >> this
> >> script to post-process [per .sum file for stability]) - I looked through a 
> >> few of
> >> the reported cases and they seem genuiene - but particularly in respect of
> >> dg-final ones, hard to see how they can be disambiguated without we make
> >> dg-final able to add some tag to differentiate.
> >
> > I must confess I didn't look at the list in detail, hoping that people
> > would gradually / promptly fix things of interest to then ;-)
> >
> >>
> >> are there any plans to deal with this new reported data?
> > No plan on my side at least, I just wrote this patch and the previous
> > after discussing (on- and off-list), and that seemed very quick to do
> > ;-)
> >
> >> if not, I’d welcome a switch on the script - so that one could at least 
> >> elect
> >> only to report new dups ..
> > new dups as in "new dups compared to the list of dups of them previous run" 
> > ?
>
> I think that there’s merit to always looking at changes for the worse (I 
> suppose
> these cannot be called exactly ‘regressions’) - so new dups since the last 
> run,
> yes.
>
> The list of all dups is very useful to someone who plans to work through them
> (or even the ones they feel responsible for) - but I’d say it’s value as a
> constant reminder is much less …

I naively thought all of them would be fixed in a couple of days after
my previous patch ;-)

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> > or just disable this new facility (and come back to the behaviour
> > before my previous patch?
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> No, IMO, this is a great addition .. I think we need to fix these issues - 
> dup tests
> make the sorting process much more fragile.
>
> cheera
> Iain
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> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> Iain
>

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