Re: headache on build repeatibility: octave vs BLODA ?

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

Am 26.01.2020 um 09:05 schrieb ASSI:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> at least I know that is not just my machine.
>> When I released the package was
>>
>>
>>    libinterp/corefcn/file-io.cc-tst
>> ............................... PASS 90/90
> 
> Based on the test name there may be an assumption built into the code
> about how the filesystem behaves that isn't guaranteed on Windows/Cygwin
> or even POSIX.  If it's simply an error condition not getting checked it
> should be reproducible under debugging, but you're mostly out of luck if
> it's relying on a specific order or atomicity of certain operations, as
> debugging will almost always serialize the execution to the point where
> these types of errors do not manifest.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.

the other problem of debugging is that the backtrace is trash
after the segfault and that of course Octave is a
400 Kg gorilla with all its dependencies..

I will try anyway

Thanks
Marco






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