From: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some cleanup removal
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yddefe9w1xm.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3chxks6.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:57:45 -0600")
Hi Tom,
>>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
>
> Rainer> I thought about providing Solaris 11/SPARC and x86 builders, especially
> Rainer> since I now have appropriate machines running Solaris 11.4. However,
> Rainer> I'm uncertain how useful that would be given that there are currently
> Rainer> almost 2000 testsuite failures on x86 and 200+ racy tests. It would
> Rainer> catch build failures though.
>
> Just catching build failures would be nice. Maybe we could configure
> this builder to just not run the tests, or maybe only gdb.gdb tests.
fine. I'll give it a try then.
> Because the builders compare against baseline results, I think it is the
> large number of racy tests that is more of a problem than the number of
> failures.
Given that the vast majority of racy tests is in gdb.threads, maybe it's
enough to exclude that. Besides, I'm pretty certain that the failures
can be reduced to a handful of root causes at most.
Rainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-03 19:03 Tom Tromey
2018-09-03 19:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] Remove cleanup from add_path Tom Tromey
2018-09-03 19:03 ` [PATCH 2/4] Remove cleanup from procfs.c Tom Tromey
2018-09-04 10:50 ` Rainer Orth
2018-09-04 16:56 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-03 19:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] Return std::string from gdb_bfd_errmsg Tom Tromey
2018-09-03 19:03 ` [PATCH 4/4] Remove cleanup from try_open_exec_file Tom Tromey
2018-09-04 9:37 ` [PATCH 0/4] Some cleanup removal Rainer Orth
2018-09-04 16:58 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-04 18:30 ` Rainer Orth [this message]
2018-09-13 22:41 ` Tom Tromey
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