Re: Intermittent/non-reproducible gcc testsuite failures

2009-04-13 Thread Michael Eager
Dave Korn wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get one of these tests to fail consistently, or a different approach to finding the cause of the intermittent failures? Perhaps hack the testsuite to run the tests under gdb, setting a breakpoint on abort() tha

Re: Intermittent/non-reproducible gcc testsuite failures

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Eager
Dave Korn wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get one of these tests to fail consistently, or a different approach to finding the cause of the intermittent failures? Perhaps hack the testsuite to run the tests under gdb, setting a breakpoint on abort() tha

Re: Intermittent/non-reproducible gcc testsuite failures

2009-04-08 Thread Dave Korn
Michael Eager wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get one of > these tests to fail consistently, or a different approach > to finding the cause of the intermittent failures? Perhaps hack the testsuite to run the tests under gdb, setting a breakpoint on abort() that causes it to

Re: Intermittent/non-reproducible gcc testsuite failures

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:45 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > I'm running the gcc test suite on powerpc-unknown-eabisim > on the trunk and I get results which are different from > one run to the next. When I run the failing tests by > hand, all pass. Mike Stein also has noted that some of > the test

Intermittent/non-reproducible gcc testsuite failures

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Eager
Hi -- I'm running the gcc test suite on powerpc-unknown-eabisim on the trunk and I get results which are different from one run to the next. When I run the failing tests by hand, all pass. Mike Stein also has noted that some of the tests are intermittent failures. There are only a few test cas