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From: <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>
To: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Unreliable test suites?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 19:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86CED23D-95E1-4A1F-B656-EDD2A2244FE7@dell.com> (raw)

I'm doing some work on gdb and want to run the testsuites to confirm that I didn't mess it up.

The problem is that a number of them seem to be quite unreliable.  I've seen test runs where gdb.btrace/step.exp and/or stepi.exp have a pile of failures, but then when I rerun either just those tests, or the whole suite, they pass.

Since I haven't a clue how the reverse execution stuff works, I don't know if this is expected.  It seems strange.  I also don't know what to do about it if it's not supposed to be like that. For now, I'm just running things a couple of times, and if they pass once, I call it good enough.

	paul

             reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 19:58 Paul_Koning [this message]
2015-10-15  6:17 ` Metzger, Markus T
2015-10-26  5:36 ` Doug Evans
2015-10-26 14:31   ` Paul_Koning

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