------- Additional Comments From wilson at tuliptree dot org 2004-10-25 23:54 -------
Subject: Re: bad unwind info due to multiple returns
(missing epilogue)
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 03:57, davidm at hpl dot hp dot com wrote:
> It looks to
> me as if "expect" sometimes fails to notice the (failure-free) termination of
> the compiler and that leads to subsequent and spurious test-suite failures.
> I'll see if this is a bug in "expect".
Yes, there are some known problems with some versions of expect,
particularly on 64-bit machines. I haven't seen any such problems on my
IA-64 debian linux machine though, at least, not that I have noticed.
Most of the testsuite problems I have had have been load related. If
the load average changes while running the testsuite, this can cause
tests which are close to the timeout to be over/under depending on the
load. Also, some java tests are self-timing, and can fail if the load
changes unexpected while they are running.
I think it was HJ that wrote the patch to fix the expect problem.
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18010
