From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9948 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2003 00:35:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9941 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2003 00:35:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 4 Jan 2003 00:35:49 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h040ZZX13161; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:35:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 00:35:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Diego Novillo Cc: Andreas Jaeger , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: tree-ssa-cvs corrupt Message-ID: <20030103193535.A13114@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20030103162912.GA12816@tornado.toronto.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030103162912.GA12816@tornado.toronto.redhat.com>; from dnovillo@redhat.com on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:29:12AM -0500 X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:29:12AM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jan 2003, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > > I got lots of failures in the testsuite due to missing first characters. > > > > Note the missing "/" at the beginning of the line: > > arthur:/cvs/gcc-tree-ssa-20020619-branch/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile:[0] > > $ head 20001226-1.c > > > This one is on purpose. I added an explicit syntax error to > avoid blowing up memory usage. When building SSA we start > allocating more and more memory until eventually timing out and > thrashing the machine to death. > > I couldn't XFAIL it because the harness still tries to compile > the testcase first. Might I suggest a self-documenting way of causing an immediate syntax error? CRASH NOW, there are memeory problems blah blah blah /* This testcase exposed two branch shortening bugs on powerpc. */ ... :-) Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002